by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I discovered Gail Caldwell’s first book, the memoir A Strong West Wind, in a rare moment of serendipitous book-buying in an old-fashioned bookstore. Reading other people’s memoirs that year while writing my own, I selected A Strong West Wind because I was...
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 | Jun 29, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
If you’re working on a memoir, or any long-form prose for that matter, chances are you’ve spent a large chunk of time sitting alone in front of your keyboard or with a pen poised over your notebook. Either way, your words grow into sentences, which turn...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’ve recently discovered The Review Review, which, well, reviews the latest issues of literary journals and interviews their editors. It’s such a perfect idea I wonder why nobody thought of starting a publication like this before. It fills a need that...
