by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
For those readers who don’t use Twitter or who didn’t catch these links the first time I tweeted them, I’ve decided to post a regular round-up of my most-popular links on writing, editing, memoir and grants for writers from the past month. By doing...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog, Memoir
Regular readers know of my lit-crush on Geoff Dyer (see here and here). In this interview with ASH Smyth over at Guernica on the occasion of his new book Zona, he has many interesting things to say, but here I’ll focus on what he says about nonfiction book...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 22, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
That we have all survived literary blogger Maud Newton’s 40th birthday – it fell on the same day as the rapture that wasn’t – is no excuse for you not to read her fabulous piece in The Awl about that coincidence. To celebrate our survival, I...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 15, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
Though I was among those who thought I had said in public all I want to say about grief, a spate of new publications on the subject has challenged my silence. All I’m doing in this post is listing the three books I want to inhale immediately, and why. (I’m...
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...