[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: update/good news from Tory Patterson

[D Charles Whitney]

>
> Alumna and Lecturer Tory Patterson's story "Winter Formal: A Night  
> of Magic" has been accepted for the winter 2008 issue (February) of  
> The Southern Review.  The story germinated in Michael Jayme's  
> workshop and is from Drift, publication date June 1st with Houghton  
> Mifflin.
>
>
> Here is the Houghton Mifflin catalogue description of Drift:
>
> Drift
>
> Stories
>
>
> A Mariner Original
>
> "Patterson is our generation's heir to John O'Hara and Edith  
> Wharton. And nobody else writes about female sexuality with such  
> sensitivity and fearlessness. Several times I had to put this book  
> down just to catch my breath."—Michelle Huneven, author of Jamesland
>
> "A gifted storyteller, a fresh, essential new voice."—Dana Johnson,  
> author of Break Any Woman Down
>
> From a fresh new Southern California voice comes this wise and  
> intimate debut collection that offers a fascinating glimpse of  
> exclusive Newport Beach through the lives of the waiters and  
> waitresses, divorced and single parents, and alienated teens who  
> all, in some way, find themselves on the outside looking in.  
> "Henry's House" introduces us to Melody and Katharine, single  
> mothers who raised their daughters together—until Melody marries  
> for money, sacrificing herself so that her mother and Katharine can  
> enjoy the luxuries her beauty has earned them all. "Remoras" probes  
> the transformative friendship between John, a waiter of ambiguous  
> sexual proclivities, and Annette, the restaurant's hostess, who has  
> promised herself to a fellow Armenian. And then there's Rosie,  
> whose evolution from a lonely child of divorce to precocious  
> teenager, alcoholic college student, and eventual career waitress  
> provides heartbreaking punctuation to this linked collection.  
> Deceptively powerful and refreshingly frank, Patterson's stories— 
> like those of ZZ Packer, Julie Orringer, and Nell Freudenberger— 
> plumb the depths of female friendship and what it means to be an  
> outsider, all while offering a rare and rewarding glimpse inside  
> affluent Newport Beach.
>
> VICTORIA PATTERSON received her MFA from UC Riverside. Her award- 
> winning short fiction has appeared in the Santa Monica Review, the  
> Florida Review, and Snake-Nation Review, among other publications.  
> She lives with her family in South Pasadena.
>
>
D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS
U of California, Riverside CA 92521
951.827.6076    FAX 951.827.3619

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