by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
Writing teacher and author Lynette Benton, who writes the much-visited Polish and Publish blog, recently asked me for my thoughts on the differences between memoir and family history. While the question was prompted by a student asking for clarification during one of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 17, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
While scouring the “interweb” for suitable snippets for my next Brisbane Courier Mail books column, I stumbled across this recipe for pavlova on the Book, Line & Sinker book-review site. I didn’t expect to see an antipoedean classic on a New...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
If you’re not familiar with the Totally Hip video series by Ron Charles, the Washington Post’s fiction critic, his most recent installment is the perfect introduction. In it, New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian makes a self-deprecating cameo...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
Last week a couch came to my corner of Brooklyn, and I can quite honestly say it has transformed the humble apartment in which I sleep and write. Two lovely men transported the couch – a faux-velour job in a pale coffee color, inexcusably comfortable for the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 30, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
Just found Ronnie Bruce’s wonderful typographical animation of a poem by Taylor Mali over at Meanjin magazine’s Spike blog. As Mali himself says, I have no idea who he is (and he didn’t ask for permission), but what would you do when the result is so...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
The definition of music I learned at 13 – “organised sound” – is still the one I like best. Here’s a clip promoting an installation at London’s Barbican in which a flock of zebra finches go about their daily activities in a...