by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 21, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
How much fun was it to see the Modfather himself, the ageless Paul Weller, at the Enmore Theatre on Wednesday night? I haven’t jumped around in my chair so much since – well, since a gig at the Village Vanguard in February, and then the one at Sweet Rhythm...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 18, 2008 | Blog, Uncategorized
Gosh but it’s been chilly in the mornings at my place. So I was glad to warm my heart at the news, published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, of the launch of Mission Australia’s new program called the Michael Project (press release here). The...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 12, 2008 | Blog, Uncategorized
It’s been an intense few weeks, what with my writers’ festival finale, a TV appearance, scouting for new clients, and becoming “Il Presidente” of Sydney PEN. Sad to say, I’ve also been sleeping on my sofa the past few nights, drifting off...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 9, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Anyone who has attended a writers’ festival or a book signing – whether as a writer or reader – should get several guffaws out of this account by novelist Ann Patchett in The Atlantic about her experiences on book tours. Although chock-full of the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 6, 2008 | Blog, Uncategorized
Yesterday I submitted an editorial to the Sydney Morning Herald’s opinion page on behalf of Sydney PEN, trying to draw sports-mad Australians’ attention to the fact that while we’re collecting medals and worrying about internet access for foreign...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 5, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Talk about a long time coming – my pal Derek Van Gieson, the wittiest dude in Prospect Heights*, has broken through into the artistic cumulous and has a credit on The New Yorker website, in their online “cartoon lounge”. For some time now he’s...