Victoria N. Alexander PhD

http://www.torialexander.com

Tori Alexander is a novelist who lives in New York and also writes on the philosophy of science under the name Victoria N. Alexander.

Published in the Antioch Review, Biosemiotics, Configurations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization, English Language Notes, Nabokov Studies, Pynchon Notes, and several visual art journals/magazines, Dr. Alexander has investigated chance and teleology in narrative by such diverse writers as Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Louis Begley, Henry James, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, C. S. Peirce, Thomas Pynchon, and Shakespeare.
Her novels Smoking Hopes, Naked Singularity, and Trixie pursue similar themes involving coincidence and emergent intentionality.

Books by Victoria N. Alexander PhD

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Book Reviews by Victoria N. Alexander PhD

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Author(s):
Tyler Volk
Genre(s):
Science & Math, Political & Social Science

Death & Sex

December 6, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Victoria N. Alexander PhD

Death and sex are literature’s subjects, not science’s. What we care most about is what these subjects mean to us—not what they, in fact, are.

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Author(s):
Philip Roth
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

The Humbling (Vintage International)

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Victoria N. Alexander PhD

“You’ll like it. No, I’d prefer you to suck me off,” he said.
“While I wear my cock,” she said.
“Yes.”
“While I wear my big thick green cock.”
“That’s what I want.”

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