Mary Karr
With allegations of abuse looming against Lemony Snicket, Jay Asher, Sherman Alexie, and Junot Díaz, it's clear that the #MeToo movement has hit publishing in a big way. On Friday, memoirist and poet Mary Karr wrote a Twitter post that alleged that David Foster Wallace threatened her and assaulted her when she was a single mom. This isn't the first time Karr's accusations against Wallace have been made public, either. His own biographer corroborated much of her story in Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace.
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Memoirist and poet Mary Karr, whose name has long been saddled to that of her worshipped ex David Foster Wallace, is now tweeting that Wallace violently abused her. The fact that he abused her is.
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Karr is a Guggenheim Fellow and the award-winning author of The Liar's Club. She has published three memoirs, the most recent of which is 2009's Lit. Karr is also the author of several poetry collectionsand a nonfiction book, titled The Art of Memoir. Karr dated Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest, in the early 1990s. Wallace died of suicide in 2008.
Karr's story isn't exactly new. As Jezebel writer Whitney Kimball points out, 'The fact that [Wallace] abused [Karr] is not a revelation; this has been documented and adopted by the literary world as one of Wallace’s character traits.' The Infinite Jest author's biographer openly referred to 'a letter to the head of his halfway house,' in which Wallace 'apologizes for contemplating buying a gun to kill the writer Mary Karr's husband,' saying that it 'read[s].. like a David Foster Wallace essay.'
- Mary Karr has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Whiting Writer’s Award.
- About Mary Karr Mary Karr's first memoir, The Liar's Club, kick-started a memoir revolution and won nonfiction prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters.
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Update microsoft office for mac catalina. In an interview with Lena Dunham published to Lenny in January 2017, Karr intimated that she was tired of talking about her relationship to Wallace, saying: 'Sometimes people go on and on about David Foster Wallace. As though my contribution to literature is that I f*cked him a couple times in the early 90s.' The two authors dated in the years before their careers really took off. Now, Karr says that she felt emboldened to speak out by the collection of voices that make up #MeToo and #TimesUp. In response to one fan's declaration that they 'w[ould] be tossing' their copy of Infinite Jest 'in the trash,' Karr said that she 'wouldnt [sic] ask anyone to toss a book..not on my behalf.'
Karr's tweets about Wallace drew criticism from some fans who were upset that the memoirist did not post pictures of her abuser's incriminating letters, and that the late author was not able to defend himself from accusations. Karr addressed those detractors in a single tweet:
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Honors
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- AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubble
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Tax Law, Trusts & Estates, 2013-21
- Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite,” Trusts and Estates
- Florida Super Lawyers, Estate Planning and Probate, 2010-20
- Florida Super Lawyers, “Rising Star,” Estate Planning and Probate, 2010-12
- Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite, Up and Comer,” Trusts and Estates, 2004
- “Best of the Bar,” South Florida Business Journal, Taxation and Trusts and Estates
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- “Virtual Representation: Is It Just Smoke and Mirrors,” Litigation and Trust Law Symposium, May 2013
- “Will the True Intent of the Grantor Be Honored? Modification and Reformation of Trusts,” Florida Bar, May 2012
- “Florida Probate, Trust and Estate Case Law Update,” Collier County Bar Association and The Corporate Fiduciaries of Southwest Florida, co-authored written materials, May 2012
- “Irrevocable Trusts,” Estate Planning Council, November 2011
- “Florida Probate, Trust and Estate Case Law Update,” Collier County Bar Association and The Corporate Fiduciaries of Southwest Florida, co-authored written materials, May 2011
- “Directed Trusts and Delegation of Duties to Agents and Trustees,” Florida Bar, December 2008
- “Directed Trusts: The Statutory Approaches to Authority and Liability,” 35 Estate Planning 7, co-authored, September 2008
- Guest lecturer in “Certified Financial Planning” course, Barry University, 2003-07 annually
- “New Trust Code Law in Florida,” continuing legal education course, July and September 2007
- “Wise Women — Creating a Family Heirloom,” presented by Gibraltar Bank, October 2006
- “Overview of Estate Planning,” continuing legal education course, 2005 and 2006
- “Tax Shelter Rules,” Holland & Knight Private Wealth Services CLE, presented with Andrew H. Weinstein and Jonathan Strouse, April 2004
- “Implications of Proposed Circular 230,” Holland & Knight Institute, presented with Andrew H. Weinstein, February 2004
- “Tax Shelters — The Ethical Dilemma,” Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, co-authored, January 2004
- “Family Limited Partnerships — Legitimate Tax Planning is Approved,” Holland & Knight Private Wealth Services Newsletter, co-authored, Winter 2004
- “Cross-Border Exchanges under Code Section 367,” NYU Institute on Federal Taxation, co-authored, November 2002
- “Tax Considerations in Structuring Mergers and Acquisitions,” Holland & Knight Institute, co-authored, October 2002