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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

This week, class-conscious literary star and local girl makes good Victoria Patterson makes bad, very bad, or at least naughty in this, OC Bookly's first author interview. Patterson, whose take on ...