Memoirist Mary Karr Comes To Joe's Pub 2/22

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will present "The Paris Review: Mary Karr and Philip Gourevitch in Conversation" on Monday, February 22 at 7 p.m. in Joe's Pub. In the tradition of The Paris Review's renowned Writers at Work series of written interviews, Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review and longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, will interview Mary Karr, the best-selling author of the memoirs Lit, Cherry, and The Liars' Club. An "Art of Memoir" interview with Karr will appear in the spring issue of The Paris Review. Tickets to this one-night-only event are $20 and can be purchased at (212) 967-7555 or www.publictheater.org.

Following a sold-out conversation with Sam Shepard at The Public Theater in 2008, The Paris Review returns to Joe's Pub on February 22 for a lively conversation with Mary Karr about the craft of writing. Time Magazine named The Paris Review "America's greatest literary journal" and The New York Times calls the Paris Review interviews "the most remarkable and extensive interviewing project we possess."

Mary Karr's first memoir, The Liars' Club, kick-started a memoir revolution and won nonfiction prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. It was named one of the 10 best books of 2009 by The New York Times and rode high on their bestseller list for over a year becoming an annual "best book" there and for The New Yorker, People, and Time. The Liars' Club was also a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Recently, Entertainment Weekly rated it number four in the top 100 books of the past 25 years. Her second memoir, Cherry, which was excerpted in The New Yorker, also hit bestseller and "notable book" lists at The New York Times and dozens of other newspapers nationwide. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Karr has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays. Other grants include the Whiting Award and Radcliffe's Bunting Fellowship. She is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.

PHILIP GOUREVITCH is the author of The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, A Cold Case and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, which won numerous prizes, and the National Book Critic's Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the George K. Polk for Foreign Reporting. He has been the editor of The Paris Review since 2005 and is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker.

Tickets to this one-night-only event are $20 and are available now at (212) 967-7555. For additional information about Joe's Pub and The Public Theater, visit The Public Theater website at www.publictheater.org

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