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 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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 9, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
I’ve just come across Lindsay Miller’s impassioned essay on the cultural and political power of women’s memoirs in this recent essay in The Atlantic. I have to say I’m impressed at her dedication to reading the sub-genre of memoirs by Iranian...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I discovered Gail Caldwell’s first book, the memoir A Strong West Wind, in a rare moment of serendipitous book-buying in an old-fashioned bookstore. Reading other people’s memoirs that year while writing my own, I selected A Strong West Wind because I was...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
Despite my best efforts, my inbox always remains stuffed with newsletters for and about writing, which contain more intriguing links than I could ever have time to click on, let alone read. Mostly I sigh and remind myself that I really should cull the number of email...