Regarding Her Book
"The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann"
Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 6:30 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is a virtual event that requires an internet connection and Zoom*
We are pleased to present a Zoom interview of author Virginia Pye by Kristin Bair.
Pye has provided a special perspective on life-changing experiences for writers and reinvigorates the historical novel idiom with her book The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann. The book, which is “set in Gilded Age Boston, tells the story of a successful author of romance and adventure novels who becomes a champion of women’s rights as she takes on the literary establishment, and finds her true voice, both on and off the page. Everything changes for Victoria as she goes against her publisher’s expectations and abandons her publisher’s expectations to tell her own story. She loses her income, husband, and her standing with her publisher as she joins the legions of hardworking women who have been her most faithful readers. As she fights on behalf of these women, her new young Harvard-educated editor becomes her unexpected ally. The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann shows writing and reading as acts of defiance that can liberate us from narrow, constrained lives- and how revision in life and revision on the page are intimately entwined.”
Bio of Virginia Pye
Virginia Pye is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. Her novel The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann is set to be published by Regal House Publishing on October 3, 2023. Pye’s short story collection Shelf Life of Happiness won the 2019 Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Short Fiction, and one of the stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel River of Dust was an IndieNext Pick and a 2013 finalist for the Virginia Literary Award. Pye’s second novel Dreams of the Red Phoenix was named a Best Book of 2015 by the Richmond Times Dispatch.
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