by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 15, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
The Economist’s books blog reviews James Wolcott’s memoir of 1970s New York as the latest in a long line of first-person accounts of living in the city. There are certain precautions memoirists can take to inoculate themselves against the genre’s hazards....
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
Did you know that literary magazine Tin House receives 2,000 stories every month? Or that New York literary agents receive 10-12 queries per day? These are a few of the reality-check gems I picked up by watching the videotaped National Book Critics Circle panel...