Novelist Victoria Patterson on Robert Plunket

February 6, 2024. Tuesday, 2 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California. Here's a good one. This week on a special Fund Drive edition of Bibliocracy, a taped reading by novelist and short story writer Victoria Patterson. She recently read for Santa Monica Review, sharing a new essay on her journey to visit a recently rediscovered, now celebrated fellow novelist, Robert Plunket. Patterson herself played a significant role in reintroducing the novel My Search for Warren Harding to readers and editors, with a newly republished version of the landmark (smart, hilarious, brilliant) novel by Plunket out now. She’s introduced by her Antioch writing student Joshua Levine. Thanks to Patterson (The Secret Habit of Sorrow) for sharing “My Search for Robert Plunket” and to Santa Monica College and, of course, to listener-supporters of KPFK on this Fund Drive edition of Bibliocracy. And a special thank you to the Community of Writers, which contributes production help toward making this radio show a podcast, and on whose website this essay can be read: https://ogquarterly.org/#Patterson.

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