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Lit has been named one of the top ten books of 2009 by the New York Times Sunday Book Review ! And Lit has also been named one of the top ten non-fiction books of the year by Time Magazine and made Michiko Kakutani's ( New York Times ) top ten book list. For more reviews, check out the Press and Articles listing on the About the Author page on...

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Sinners Welcome
by Mary Karr

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion...
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