by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 17, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Just after seven o’clock this morning, I met my friend and neighbour DvG (whose art was the subject of a recent post) for a photography tour of our immedicate vicinity. The purpose of this tour was to take some photographs of me in my Brooklyn ‘hood, in...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 15, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
After a light lunch in Central Park with old friends yesterday I tripped a few blocks south to the Frick Collection, a jaw-dropping collection of art that had hung on the walls of the home of 19th-century coal and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick at the corner of 70th...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 14, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
It’s almost 10pm on Tuesday night my time. I had believed I would get through the entire day without turning on my laptop computer, but it looks like I have formed a habit. Email seems to run like blood in the American cultural veins, and I believe it’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 12, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I am thrilled to announce officially that my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, will be published next year in Australia by UQP. As many of you know, I have been working on this book for most of the time I’ve been living in New York....
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 8, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Two inches of rain overnight caused the entire New York City subway system to flood and shut down this morning. Not Spielberg-style, with tunnels of water carting subway cars into the Hudson or East Rivers, but rather via an excess of water that the system’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 6, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Australian readers, count your blessings where you find them: you do not have to endure TV advertisements for prescription medications, or for individual law firms. Lately I’ve been struck by one particularly urgent commercial, featuring two alleged victims....