by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 7, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Friends, if you didn’t see last weekend’s review of David Kowalski’s The Company of the Dead, the wonderful novel to which I played editorial midwife for many years, please take a look here. The author told me that his mother was moved to tears...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 7, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
My London friends are Mac aficionados and photography fiends and showed off some of the more interesting features of the iPhoto software. This one is “Pop Art Virginia”. The others – including “Facial Distortion Virginia” and “Photo...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 7, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’m writing from the desk of a friend of inestimable worth: he has a spare bedroom in Manhattan. I flew back from London on Tuesday night and was surprised by how strongly I felt that I had returned home. The city conspires to seduce me as I prepare to leave it:...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Last week, in the very to-do part of west London called Chiswick, Maria and I were returning to her car when we saw a tall thin woman rushing along the street. She stopped as she came alongside us, and asked us if we spoke English. She then explained, in between fits...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
I don’t believe in fairy tales, but this one I received by email today and quite like: Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl “Will you marry me?” The girl said, “No.” And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Sunday morning in London, and you can’t go past a big breakfast fry-up. Discovering that she lacked a few key ingredients, Maria ventured to the top of the street to the local butcher, and returned with more than a few thin sausages. “It’s all about...