Victoria Patterson

Still waiting @AGRobBonta

🚨 THE STORY PRIZE FINALISTS ARE HERE!🚨 Congrats to Fiona McFarlane, @rubenwrites, and @JezewskaJ @fsgbooks @MarinerBooks @andothertweets

@sumbodysbabygrl Thank you, yes! I have close friends who’ve lost their homes. 💔

@vpatterson1269 Are you and your family okay?

It'd be so cool to have a platform where you could just find helpful reporting and emergency information without stumbling over thousands of posts from people who see a devastating fire as an opportunity to share their half-baked political takes

L.A. writer @vpatterson1269 shares the unlikeliest of friendships that bloomed in the bowels of the Huntington Library. altaonline.com/books/a6001304…

Angry, undulating, hallucinatory — the drawings of the 1970s activist Peter Carr get an overdue exhibition outside Los Angeles. nyti.ms/4feHs8V

Detective accused of giving Nazi-like salute resigns from South Pasadena Police Department latimes.com/california/sto…

@SouthPasadenan @southpaspd

Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror newrepublic.com/article/185492…

Don’t miss this conversation on @nprfreshair with Terry Gross and Danzy Senna, author of the hilarious and biting COLORED TELEVISION. npr.org/2024/09/03/nx-…

"Danzy Senna is a risk-taker. Of all the many things I admire about her writing, this may be what I appreciate most." Read more of David Ulin's thoughts on "Colored Television" below. altaonline.com/california-boo…

With 'Colored Television,' Danzy Senna gives us a laugh-out-loud cultural critique latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Some Consider Being Biracial a ‘Predicament.’ Danzy Senna Thinks It’s Hilarious. nytimes.com/2024/09/01/boo…

"Whose voice was that now screaming?" For LARB Quarterly, no. 42: Gossip, Veronica Gonzalez Peña (@rockypointpress) writes a new story on disappearing. lareviewofbooks.org/article/notes-…

Six years ago today Vanessa Marquez was shot and killed by South Pasadena Police. #VanessaMarquez

Subversion of the Tragic Mulatto in ‘Colored Television’ altaonline.com/california-boo…

L.A. writer @vpatterson1269 shares the unlikeliest of friendships that bloomed in the bowels of the Huntington Library. altaonline.com/books/a6001304…

Just a reminder that “racist” is often more succinct and accurate than “racially charged.”

The Cruel Genius of Robert Plunket’s Gay Satires thenation.com/article/cultur…