by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
When you have a literary crush on a writer, going to see him or her at a live event is a fraught undertaking. There’s always the chance that my reader’s fantasy, gleaned over hours of intimate and silent time spent in the author’s company, will be...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
Geoff Dyer’s latest column for the New York Times Book Review has encouraged me to come clean about my patterns of reading and book-buying. Dyer – whom Zadie Smith has called “a national treasure” for his “acute and bad-tempered”...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 22, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
My memoir-related internet meanderings from the week ending Friday 22 July: From the Paris Review blog, Paradise Lost – a wonderful example of the personal essay in just under 1,500 sculpted words from Vanessa Blakeslee, about her relationship with a man...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
Despite my best efforts, my inbox always remains stuffed with newsletters for and about writing, which contain more intriguing links than I could ever have time to click on, let alone read. Mostly I sigh and remind myself that I really should cull the number of email...
