Saw Tobias Wolff and Mary Karr at the New Yorker Festival last night, and I have to say: Tobias Wolff is fascinating. I realize that this is news to no one. Also, I really liked Wolff’s take on memoir writing–he was nervous to get involved with a genre associated with “actors, successful generals, and Winston Churchill.”
The quote of the night, though, came from my husband, as he looked around the theatre before the talk began: “I’d like to know the total number of high-school beatings in this room.”
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women.
I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico.
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