One of this country's most acclaimed poets (Sinners Welcome, Viper Rum) and essayists, Mary Karr has also been known for telling memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. She makes this welcome Elliott Bay return this evening for her most recent of these accounts, the autobiographical Lit (HarperCollins). "Karr deftly covers a vast stretch of her life—age 17 to her present 50. The author picks up where her 2000 memoir Cherry left off ... Karr ... writes with a singular combination of poetic grace and Texan verve, which allows her to present the experiences as fresh, but also brigs a potent, self-condemning honesty and a palpable sense of responsibility and regret to the narrative ... Will ring true in American-lit classrooms as in church support groups—an absolute gem that secures Karr's place as one of the best memoirists of her generation." - Kirkus Reviews.