OC Bookly Interview: Victoria Patterson
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Hey, how about a hypothetical time-travel tourism question! You, Victoria Patterson, OC Weekly Best Author 2011, are hosting expat Edith Wharton (Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, 1862-1937) on her visit to South Orange County. Where would you taker her? By the way, her plane from Seine-et-Oise landed at the new Terminal C at John Wayne (actor, not skateboarder) Airport, she is dead, and she really needs a drink.
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| Find us at the bar |
VP: I'd take Ms. Wharton immediately to Drybar in Fashion Island, where we'd watch us some Sex in the City while sipping champagne (or guzzling, as might be Ms. Wharton's case), and get our hair blown out in Mai Tais (messy and beachy). Looking good, we'd head to the Balboa Bay Club, or to Josh Slocums for a possible Dennis Rodman sighting. Finally, we'd get down and dirty at The Helm.
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Will your two terrific books, the short story collection Drift and your novel This Vacant Paradise perhaps be on sale, and available for signing by you at the upcoming Literary Orange event, April 14 at UC Irvine?
Will your two terrific books, the short story collection Drift and your novel This Vacant Paradise perhaps be on sale, and available for signing by you at the upcoming Literary Orange event, April 14 at UC Irvine?
Yes, Mr. Bib, and also in the trunk of my car at a 2% discount.
Besides supporting the literary arts at Literary Orange, fomenting class warfare and shopping at Fashion Island, what do you for fun?
For shiz and giggles, Mr. Bib, I'm fond of deep breathing Tantric sex.
Do you encourage your own creative writing students to read novels and short stories, or spend lots of time talking about the death of reading, Kindles and font size?
Mostly, Mr. Bib, we discuss reality television.
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| Panel at last year's Literary Orange |
Drift, Victoria Patterson, Mariner Books, 240 pp.,$12.95
This Vacant Paradise, Victoria Patterson, Counterpoint, 320 pp.,$15.95
Andrew Tonkovich hosts the Wednesday night literary arts program Bibliocracy Radio, on KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California.
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