"Searing. . . . A book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won't let you go. . . . Chronicles with searching intelligence, humor and grace the author's slow, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes painful discovery of her vocation and her voice as a poet and writer." – Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Karr could tell you what's on her grocery list, and its humor would make you bust a gut, its unexpected insights would make you think and her pitch-perfect command of our American vernacular might even take your breath away.... [Karr] holds the position of grande dame memoirista." – Samantha Dunn, Los Angeles Times
"In a gravelly, ground-glass-under-your-heel voice that can take you from laughter to awe in a few sentences, Karr has written the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years." – Susan Cheever, New York Times Book Review
"As irresistible as it is unflinchingly honest. . . . With grace, saltiness and profanity galore, Karr undeniably re-establishes herself as one of our finest memoirists and storytellers." – Melanie Gideon, San Francisco Chronicle
"Dazzling. . . . Lit reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art." – Rebecca Steinitz, Boston Globe
"[A] radiant, rueful, rip-roaring book. . . .Warm enough to burn a hole in your heart." – Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
"Scrappy, gut-wrenching. . . . Irresistible. . . . [Written] with trademark wit, precision, and unfailing courage." – Pam Houston, O Magazine
"There isn't a single false note in Lit." – Carmela Ciuraru, Christian Science Monitor
"A redemptive, painfully funny story." – Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
"Karr movingly depicts her halting journey into AA, making it clear her grit and spirit remain intact." – Michelle Green, People, 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
"Karr's sharp and funny sensibility won me over to her previous two volumes, but what wins me over to Lit is the way her acute self-awareness conquers any hint that hers is the only version of this story.... Karr is as funny as ever." – Valery Sayers, Washington Post
"Mary Karr has never lacked for material. But she's always delivered on the craft side, too, with her poet's gift for show-and-tell." – Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A brutally honest, sparkling story." – Glamour
"Mary Karr restores memoir form's dignity with Lit." – Vanity Fair
"With this third book Karr has managed to raise the bar higher still on the genre of memoir." – Steve Ross, Huffington Post
"Lit matches its predecessors in candor and outstrips them in insight." – Commonweal
"[Karr] continues to delight with her signature dark humor and pitch-perfect metaphors delivering large doses of wit and painful insights. . . . There are plenty of memoirs about being drunk, but this one has Karr's voice-both sure-footed and breezy-behind it." – Beth Greenfield, Time Out New York
