by Virginia Lloyd | May 3, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Long time no post, but I’ve finally updated my website with the events I’m facilitating/chairing at the Sydney Writers Festival later this month. While I’m always sorry to leave New York – and never more so than this time – I am thrilled...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 17, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here’s a timely reminder for those of us scribbling away for no money, little money, or in between earning money by doing jobs we like slightly less than writing. Lapham’s Quarterly has published this subscription-teaser on their website today, revealing a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
The Australian Literary Review has published this review of Raymond Carver’s short stories in their unedited, pre-Gordon Lish versions, which has been released under Carver’s original title, Beginnings. The article uses the new book to explore the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
By now The Guardian’s Ten rules of writing fiction has been well distributed virally – I stumbled across it over at City of Tongues, in which James Bradley also confesses to having neglected his blog lately. Well James, not as much as I have neglected mine...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 26, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Christopher Hitchens’s piece on Gore Vidal in the February issue of Vanity Fair, “Vidal Loco”, is a fair if sad account of the decline into irrelevance of a once-influential and provocative American voice (Vidal was occasionally referred to as a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 10, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here’s a thoughtful piece from retired Washington Post literary editor Bob Thompson. In “Writing about Writers” he recounts having to interview Joan Didion about her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking – three days after her daughter...