by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 27, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
For those readers who don’t use Twitter or who didn’t catch these links the first time I tweeted them, I’ve decided to post a select time-sucking round-up of my most-retweeted links from the past month. Topics will always be some combination of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
In her “three-part rant” on the PEN Center USA blog, Shanna Mahin makes a series of sharp and timely points about the art and craft of writing memoir. Like many readers, myself included, Shanna is tired of memoir being considered the “red-headed...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
I’m excited that my first guest post on the terrific Brevity blog is now online. It’s a riff on a satirical attack on memoir-writing in the new play Seminar by Theresa Rebeck, which I recently saw in preview. The remarkable Alan Rickman (who I have adored...
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...