I Am So Popular: It's a Boy!

Courtesy Austinist  Fri, 12/04/2009 - 3:40pm

Editor’s note: The views expressed in I Am So Popular are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network.

Dear Henry,

I recently read Mary Karr’s latest memoir, Lit .

She opens the book up with a letter to her son. Of course the letter isn’t really to her son. It’s to her audience.

We call this sort of thing a literary device ...


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