Victoria Patterson

Articles

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  A Nice Hobby, Like Knitting: On Barbara Pym

  Now recognized as a master for her wry, comic novels of spinsters and clergymen, Barbara Pym was unpublished until the very end of her life....

  Victoria PattersonJul 16, 2015

  • Fiction

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  Minding Other People’s Business: On Dawn Powell

  Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing....

  Victoria PattersonApr 14, 2015

  • Biography

  • Fiction

• Fatally Cleaved

  On Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back...

  Victoria PattersonSep 17, 2014
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  No Girls Allowed: On “Queens of Noise”

  The Runaways: punk icons, feminist icons, hard-rock icons....

  Victoria PattersonSep 1, 2013

  • Music

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  Refusal to Cooperate: The Afterlife of "Zeitoun"

  On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page....

  Victoria PattersonDec 7, 2012

• The Strangeness of Reality: Chris Kraus’s Summer of Love

  CATT DUNLOP, the heroine of Chris Kraus’s novel Summer of Hate, is a 44-year old cultural art critic with a small devoted following of “Asperger’s boys, girls who’d been hospitalized for mental illness, assistant ...

  Victoria PattersonOct 14, 2012
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  Not Pretty: On Edith Wharton and Jonathan Franzen

  Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?...

  Victoria PattersonFeb 25, 2012