The Art of Memoir

This book by Mary Karr was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.

• “I've read the art of memoir by Mary Karr which is a book I absolutely adore which I think touches on that also quite a lot”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “which is a book I absolutely adore”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 202000:22:22

  Said during "Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path, Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, and More". The episode features Elizabeth Gilbert: Number one New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the novel City of Girls. A former award-winning magazine journalist whose career spans acclaimed fiction and nonfiction. Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, creativity as spiritual practice, trusting bodily intuition, and saying a clean, guilt-free no.