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Mary Karr: Prayer, Poetry, and the Catholic Faith

For Mary Karr, the road to faith was a long, hard climb for someone who once described herself as an "undiluted agnostic." By her mid-thirties Karr's life had begun to unravel. Her marriage was failing. She drank heavily, wrecked the family car, was hospitalized for an emotional breakdown. In desperation, she took a friend's advice and reluctantly began to pray. She became an unlikely Catholic convert. Her memoir "The Liars' Club," became a bestseller in the 1990s, and she has written a new book entitled "Lit." Watch much more of correspondent Judy Valente's conversation with Mary Karr about God, prayer, poetry, and the Catholic faith.