{"id":184487,"date":"2026-02-28T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:32:06","slug":"the-texas-book-club-is-dipping-into-memoir-with-our-march-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184487\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Book Club Is Dipping Into Memoir With Our March Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Texas Book Club, a book club from Texas Monthly and the Texas Book Festival, we\u2019re looking forward to enjoying the turn of spring (reading on the porch is back!) and wrapping last month\u2019s pick: Lot, by Bryan Washington. If you\u2019ve been reading along, be sure to drop your final thoughts on Lot in our Facebook group<\/a> or Instagram broadcast channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In March, we\u2019ll be reading The Liars\u2019 Club<\/a>, by Texan author Mary Karr. The first of three acclaimed memoirs, The Liars\u2019 Club recounts Karr\u2019s chaotic childhood in an East Texas oil town and her relationship with her dysfunctional parents\u2014Karr\u2019s father was an alcoholic oil-refinery worker, and her mother struggled with mental health issues and depressive episodes. The memoir is especially noteworthy for its honest depiction of Karr\u2019s own sexual abuse, and how as a very young girl, she was left to navigate a traumatic secret.<\/p>\n

Karr grew up in Groves, a refinery town of less than 20,000 people in southeast Texas, before she hightailed it out of the state when she was seventeen; she only occasionally looked back. The Liars\u2019 Club was published in 1995 and introduced Karr\u2019s deeply authentic voice and arresting prose to the Texas literary world, where she\u2019s remained a must-read ever since. Karr went on to write two more memoirs, Cherry<\/a>, about coming of age in Leechfield, and Lit<\/a>, about her sobriety journey throughout adulthood. She later added The Art of Memoir<\/a>, detailing her memoir-writing process.<\/p>\n

Below is a suggested reading schedule.<\/p>\n

Week 1 (March 1\u20138)
Chapters 1\u20134<\/p>\n

Week 2 (March 9\u201315)
Chapter 5\u20138<\/p>\n

Week 3 (March 16\u201322)
Chapters 9\u201313<\/p>\n

Week 4 (March 23\u201331)
Chapters 14\u201315<\/p>\n

If you aren\u2019t yet a member of the Texas Book Club, you can become one by joining our\u00a0Instagram broadcast channel\u00a0or\u00a0Facebook group. Make sure to grab a copy of\u00a0The Liars\u2019 Club\u2014whether it be from a beloved independent bookstore<\/a>, your local library, or online\u2014and remember, you\u2019re not reading this one alone.<\/p>\n

When you buy a book using a link on this page, a portion of your purchase goes to independent bookstores and\u00a0Texas Monthly\u00a0receives a commission. Thank you for supporting our journalism.<\/p>\n