by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
A stinging but timely consideration of what makes an excellent memoir in “The Problem with Memoirs” by Neil Genzlinger in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, published online today. Genzlinger, a staff editor at the newspaper, is fed up with...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 16, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Bestselling memoirist Franz Wisner is bullish on the future of memoir as a genre. On Twitter and in the books pages of newspapers I have noticed references to memoir being on the wane, passe, and “so five years ago”. But not in this article. Wisner...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
“Publishing School”, a welcome new series in The Awl, looks at “real-world” issues related to writing and publishing a book. I like the approach of this series because articles on writing and publishing are often written in tones of end-times...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 4, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
The brilliant Lorrie Moore is almost as spellbinding in her essays as she is in her fiction. Having recently turned the final page on her funny, moving, and highly intelligent novel A Gate At The Stairs, I was delighted to click upon her essay in The New York Review...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I was honoured to discover that acclaimed author, public speaker, and spiritual commentator Dr Stephanie Dowrick referred to my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, in her most recent column for The Good Weekend, the magazine supplement to the...