by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 2, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s poignant homage to the New York City subway can be seen here. His son Arthur’s knowledge of the subway system is almost savant-like, running like blood in his young veins. This series of captioned illustrations, which is the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 2, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here is a highly amusing account by Washington Post journalist Gene Weingarten of winning the Pulitzer Prize for this article – lauded at the time as original and groundbreaking – about a stunt which turned out to have been a brilliant if unintentional...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 29, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Getting the flu will do all sorts of strange things to you. Not only have I done nothing more strenuous than walk up and down a few flights of stairs in the past two weeks, but I’ve also lost my writing muscle, which had started to firm up through writing this...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
In the most eclectic collection of recommendations I’ve seen in a long time, my book is one of five selected for the current Shortlist by the Borders bookstore chain, a curated selection of titles emailed to their 300,000 or so online subscribers. The email...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 10, 2008 | Blog, Uncategorized
As of a few hours ago I am the newly elected President of Sydney PEN. I am honoured to hold this position and hope I can do justice to my colleagues on the incoming Management Committee (who will be listed on the organisation’s website in the next day or two),...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 2, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Spent two days in BrisVegas over Friday and Saturday, flown there and back by my generous host the University of Queensland, who invited me to be the guest of a literary lunch hosted by their new Vice-Chancellor’s wife, Louise Greenfield. I was the “guinea...