The Little Brother by Victoria Patterson
This is a story about rape told from the viewpoint of the rapist’s little brother. It is horrific,...
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Why I Collect Real Books III
I fell in love with A.M. Homes, and to know me is to know I love her writing almost as much as Zadie Smith’s work.…
Dispatch from the Story Prize Underdog
In January 2010, I received an email from my newly assigned editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, letting me know that out of 78 story collections, including many by authors I revered and studied (Mary Gaitskill, Antonya Nelson, Aleksander Hemon), Drift had been selected as one of three finalists for the 2009 Story Prize.…
Interview with M. Allen Cunningham
I contacted M. Allen Cunningham after reading his essay about rejection “In the Absence of Yes” in the Nov/Dec issue of Poets & Writers. …
Thinking and Feeling: Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men
I’ve been focusing on novels inspired by real life personages. An editor I admire suggested Robert Penn Warren’s 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning All the King’s Men.…
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner: Writers and Their Borrowings
I’ve been thinking about how to write fictionally about real events, people, and history. A fellow writer suggested I read Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. …
Widow: Stories by Michelle Latiolais
Widow: Stories by Michelle Latiolais is a compact collection, intimate and charged. The female protagonists in these eighteen stories are unnamed and vary in ages, and the theme of widowhood is entwined with stories that share a sense of loneliness and loss.…
What Readers Know – Ed Haley and Victoria Patterson
Edward Haley, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College, attended a recent reading and Q & A in Newport Beach, California for This Vacant Paradise. …
