In “Confetti,” one of the stories in Victoria Patterson’s new collection, “The Secret Habit of Sorrow,” a creative writing professor walks to his Volvo to find his ex-girlfriend, Zaqar, sleeping ...

The Little Brother, the third novel by South Pasadena author Victoria Patterson, explores the forces that collide to create a rape culture — specifically, the culture surrounding one of the most ...

Last night at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin was awarded the Story Prize for his excellent collection “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” several ...

Patterson's novel version of all of the above (and more) makes for an equally odd book, puzzling if perhaps necessarily so, perhaps two books, actually. Its Awkward-Kid Now Grown-up (sort of) ...

Like "The House of Mirth," a kindred novel of manners, Victoria Patterson's "This Vacant Paradise" opens with a man watching a beautiful woman in a crowd - in this case, a woman named Esther sipping a ...

Victoria Patterson's excellent work of fiction Drift–which is composed of 13 intertwining stories about people struggling to eke out existences in Newport Beach and surrounding communities–is a ...

Novelist Victoria Patterson’s new book, “The Little Brother,” was inspired by a sensational real-life crime, the sexual assault of a teenage girl by the son of an Orange County Sheriff Department ...

Books and movies that take on shallow lives and lifestyles usually fall into one of two irritating camps: funny or moral. In the first, the author gets to poke fun at the silly characters they’ve ...