by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 9, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
I’ve just come across Lindsay Miller’s impassioned essay on the cultural and political power of women’s memoirs in this recent essay in The Atlantic. I have to say I’m impressed at her dedication to reading the sub-genre of memoirs by Iranian...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I discovered Gail Caldwell’s first book, the memoir A Strong West Wind, in a rare moment of serendipitous book-buying in an old-fashioned bookstore. Reading other people’s memoirs that year while writing my own, I selected A Strong West Wind because I was...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 25, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
If you’re anything like me, though I hope that you’re not, the top of your internet browser is peppered with tabs, each one designating an article or blogpost I assure myself I will get around to reading as long as it stays visible while I work towards...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
For anyone wondering why there are English-speaking people who still care about such things as the Oxford comma, I offer this illustration in response: A friend sent this to me unattributed, via email. I would happily attribute its witty creator.
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 16, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
I take off my proverbial chapeau to writers who blog frequently. After spending six days editing a client’s novel, my desk is piled with books, papers, unpaid bills, notes-to-self, undone to-do lists and rough drafts of my own work-in-progress. Despite or...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
This is the cover of the new edition of the Griffith Review, “Such is Life”, which arrived in my Brooklyn mailbag yesterday and will be available on August 1. I am thrilled to be a contributor to this memoir-themed issue, which features the fine company of...