by Barry Walsh | Mar 25, 2009 | Blog Archive
As an aspiring writer, I hoover up advice wherever I can find it. Among the most valuable sources are agent/publisher websites. Thanks to their good counsel, I have enough information to avoid irritating them and/or humiliating myself when I send off my query letter,...
by Barry Walsh | Mar 12, 2009 | Blog Archive
I missed the news of the recent death of Hugh Leonard, one of the great comic writers – up there alongside Flann O’Brien, James Thurber and Damon Runyon. For me, Home Before Night (apparently out of print, shame on Penguin) is the funniest-ever novel and Da was...
by Barry Walsh | Mar 3, 2009 | Blog Archive
I’ve been putting off reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. I don’t know why exactly; something to do with a sneaking conceit that literary criticism can be lofty, dusty and display too much academic preening. And little of it ever led me eagerly to read the authors...
