by Virginia Lloyd | May 31, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
The amusing and occasionally hilarious Joe Queenan published this essay last week in the New York Times about his fascination with books containing the word “piano” in their title. He finds them almost guaranteed to lift him out of whatever low mood he...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 26, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’m pleased to announce I have a new essay appearing in the latest issue of The Drawbridge, an equally challenging and irreverent “magazine” (presented in a broadsheet newspaper format but with much better stock), whose marvelous cover appears above....
by Virginia Lloyd | May 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
My latest jazz review: Chris Potter’s Underground at the Jazz Standard – rather late in being published here due to my blog presenting some degree of tech-resistance to my efforts to use it.
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 24, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
While spending hours at a library has always been a slightly romantic idea for this bookish girl, recent excursions to the Brooklyn Public Library have started to tarnish my rose-coloured notion. BPL is a true community that brings together so many different readers,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 20, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Today I stumbled upon this lovely essay in a great aggregator blog called 3QuarksDaily. In The Literature of the Piano, Bryant Urstadt details his current reading tour – what he terms ‘another time-wasting obsession’ – of literature about the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 20, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
Some days it takes forever to leave the house. I left it about as late as possible on Sunday to get to the last day of Pierre Bonard’s late paintings and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum. And for no good reason either. I felt guilty for racing around the...