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What an underground river taught me about writing: Patrick York at TEDxUCR

4,169 views · Published 15 December 2013 · 11:01 · Indexed 30 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

Patrick Garrett York is a writer in UCR's MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing arts. His interests include fiction, screenplays and criticism. O Best Beloved, his thesis—a novel and its screen adaptation—is a story about Annie Chevalier, searching the High Desert for a motorcycle that belonged to her late mother, which she can use to outride her loss. Patrick is recently engaged to a woman he loves more than Vonnegut loved smoking Pall Malls.
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What an underground river taught me about writing: Patrick York at TEDxUCR

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