Please click the image below to go on over the Spotify and listen to the sample chapter of Locus Amoenus. If you laugh out loud, you have to post a comment below, and, if you do, you can request a code to listen to the entire audiobook for free. Please rate the audiobook on Spotify […]
With the recent release, finally, of the Locus Amoenus audiobook on all listening platforms, it’s time to reacquaint my readers with that 9/11 novel. Among the many interviews I gave in 2015, this remains my favorite. Barrett, a 9/11 truth activist, is also a very well-read academic, whose appreciation for literary works is notable. “Until […]
My 2015 novel, Locus Amoenus, is a dark comedy featuring Hamlet as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. The audiobook is the last great work by Emmy-award winning actor Ben Jorgensen. It has finally been released on all listening platforms, including Spotify, Nook, Kobo, Libro, StoryTel, Hoopla, and Google Play. (Not yet on Audible. Soon.) Want a […]
Just before the anniversary of 9/11 this year, I wrote and article for the Off-Guardian about how literary works can be useful for neutralizing the brainwashing effects of propaganda. Please click over to Off-Guardian to read it and come back when you’re done. As most of my readers know, my 2015 novel, Locus Amoenus, which […]
This month the Strange Recital features Ben Jorgensen reading Chapter One of Locus Amoenus. Following the reading, the show hosts, Tom and Brent, interview Victoria Alexander about writing that novel and working on the sequel. “As you drive northeast through Dutchess County in upstate New York, farm scenes strike calendar poses: leaning barns, well-tended white […]
On Saturday, June 1st at 12PM, Victoria Alexander will lead a discussion about her novel Locus Amoenus at Pleasant Valley Free Library 3 Maggiacomo Lane Pleasant Valley, New York 12569 The event is hosted by the Dutchess County Libertarian Party. Listen to the first chapter of the audiobook, read by Ben Jorgensen, below. RSVP https://www.facebook.com/events/354188491875892/
Audiobook, read by Emmy-award winning actor Ben Jorgensen, now available on Spotify, Nook, Kobo, Apple, Storytel, Hoopla, GooglePlay and coming soon to all other platforms. Beginning his acting career as the boy in Calvin Klein’s Obsession commercials directed by Richard Avedon, Ben Jorgensen’s credits include feature films, The Break with Martin Sheen and The Basketball Diaries with […]
As you drive northeast through Dutchess County in upstate New York, farm scenes strike calendar poses: leaning barns, well-tended white Victorians, winding roads tunneling through overhanging maples. Then, round a bend, a vista breaks open upon hilly patchwork fields and cow-dotted pastures, with many layered hills growing progressively mistier in the farther distance. This stretch […]
I am very excited to announced that Locus Amoenus has received the LFBR 2016 award for “excellence in literary fiction.” Locus Amoenus by Victoria N. Alexander centers upon the bucolic county seat of Amenia in upstate New York where Gertrude and her son Hamlet make their home after the horror of 9/11 deprived them of […]
Locus Amoenus, 9/11 novel by Victoria N. Alexander, has been nominated for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Since 2007, the DLPP has awarded $10,000 each year. Previous recipients include, Bob Shacochis for The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Junot Díaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Francine Prose for A Changed […]