by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 20, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Today I stumbled upon this lovely essay in a great aggregator blog called 3QuarksDaily. In The Literature of the Piano, Bryant Urstadt details his current reading tour – what he terms ‘another time-wasting obsession’ – of literature about the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 14, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
As of yesterday I am an official card-carrying member of the Brooklyn Public Library. Having lived in the vicinity of the library on and off for the past three years, all I can say is that it’s about time. The sweet woman who prepared my card – my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 29, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’m getting excited about being back in Brooklyn, concentrating on working towards another book. At the moment the book is about women and music, with the piano as its recurring motif. Having been honoured with a New Work grant for this project from the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
After six months in detention in Thailand, Australian writer Harry Nicolaides is once again a free man. Nicolaides was arrested in August 2008 on the charge of ‘lese-majeste’, or defaming the royal familiy of Thailand, by referring to certain behaviour of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 21, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I set the alarm clock for 3.30am Sydney time, and woke up with such excited anticipation that I would witness live – if halfway around the world – the inauguration of President Barack Obama. While I am not a citizen of the USA, I am a permanent resident,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 7, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here’s a story I wrote for Notebook: magazine’s January fiction special – January being, in the southern hemisphere, the height or depth of summer, depending on your appetite for heat and humidity. The story was one of six commissioned for the issue,...