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	<description>On writing and other not-for-profit interests of Virginia Lloyd, author of The Young Widow&#039;s Book of Home Improvement.</description>
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		<title>The coming of The Couch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; a faux-velour job in a pale coffee color, inexcusably comfortable for the price &#8211; three blocks from leafy Sterling to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byron Bay, here I come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A clairvoyant once told me I should be careful what I wish for. This year I wanted to start facilitating panel discussions on the writers&#8217; festival circuit, and look what&#8217;s happened &#8211; four panels at Sydney Writers Festival in May, and five in three days at the Byron Bay Festival in early August. For anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virginialloyd.com/vblog/?p=906</link>
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		<title>The Typewriter: A Recorded History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who ever loved a typewriter. Take a look at this recitation of the sounds of 62 different typewriters made between the 1890s and 1979, which I found over at Meanjin&#8217;s blog Spiked. Yes, that&#8217;s Michael Winslow performing the astonishing sound effects. It&#8217;s like listening to a time capsule. For his next trick, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virginialloyd.com/vblog/?p=909</link>
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		<title>Write the book you really want to read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May I point you to the valuable online forum for women writers, She Writes. In just over one year, Kamy Wicoff has established a thriving community for women who write, with over 9,000 members from more than thirty countries.  Since joining I&#8217;ve found the live internet radio discussions most helpful &#8211; see the (partially obscured) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virginialloyd.com/vblog/?p=907</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness: NSW Premier Keneally, Stephanie Dowrick &#8230; and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s confirmed: NSW Premier Kristina Keneally will join Stephanie Dowrick at the Sydney Theatre on Saturday May 23rd at 10am to discuss the subject of Forgiveness, as part of this week&#8217;s Sydney Writers Festival. This event was &#8220;re-engineered&#8221; following Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s sudden cancellation of her SWF appearances, one of which was a conversation with Stephanie [...]]]></description>
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