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 | 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 | May 31, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Robert McCrum, who for the past ten years has been the Literary Editor of The Observer, recently left his post. Signing off, he wrote this wonderful history of the last decade in book publishing for The Guardian, in the form of 10 short chapters. Travelling from...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 12, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Not quite sure what to say at the tail end of this most extraordinary first week of life for my little hardback book, other than that I am in a constant state of surprise at the reception it has received so far. The review in today’s Sydney Morning Herald is...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 7, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
The May issue of Australian Vogue contains a feature article written by yours truly. “With Compliments” describes the process of how I came to write The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. The magazine commissioned the article to coincide with...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 1, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
The most powerful ideas are often very simple. I wanted to alert you to one of them: the International PEN Poem Relay currently underway, in parallel with the Olympic torch relay, to protest the lack of freedom of expression in China. According to the Relay website,...