The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr5/24/2023 ![]() Yardley deplored The Kiss (in one of three pieces pummeling it) as a “slimy, repellent, meretricious, cynical” offering to the “gods of publicity.” Harrison was dunned for not making her memoir sexy enough in Vanity Fair, while the New Republic scolded her for transmitting her father’s abuse to her own children by daring to write about it. ![]() Harrison’s was a book people talked about for months and about which every person in the book business felt obliged to take a position. As Bennett pointed out, a very similar story, recently published on Jezebel, went viral, but still garnered nothing in comparison to the uproar that greeted The Kiss. ![]() It’s almost impossible to imagine such a response now, when equally or even more shocking revelations appear on the Internet on a weekly basis. ![]()
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