One to One: Mary Karr

Sheryl welcomes best-selling author Mary Karr to the show in this episode. Her memoir, "The Liars' Club," published in 1995, was a "New York Times" bestseller for over a year. It delves vividly and often humorously into her deeply troubled childhood, most of which was spent in a gritty, industrial section of Southeast Texas in the 1960s. She followed the book with another memoir, "Cherry" (2000), about her late adolescence and early womanhood. A third memoir, "Lit: A Memoir," which she says details "my journey from blackbelt sinner and lifelong agnostic to unlikely Catholic," came out in November 2009.

Journalist Sheryl McCarthy talks with newsmakers about their sources of inspiration. She has private conversations about public affairs issues with the people who report on them and those who ARE the story. The subjects range from global warming issues to domestic ones. Watch more at www.tv.cuny.edu/series/onetoone