Elizabeth McKenzie

Meet Veblen. She's an experienced cheerleader (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator, and a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her namesake, the economist Thorstein Veblen. She's also a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand everything she says

The Portable Veblen

A Novel

Dog of the North

L'amore al tempo degli scoiattoli

»Extrem lustig und sprachlich herausragend« JONATHAN FRANZEN Palo Alto, Kalifornien: Veblen, die sich als Übersetzerin aus dem Norwegischen versucht, und Paul, ein brillanter Neurologe, wollen heiraten – sämtlichen ideologischen (Ist die Ehe noch zeitgemäß?) und philosophischen (Wie kann man jemanden lieben, der keine Maiskolben mag?) Einwänden zum Trotz. Wäre da nur nicht der Streit um das Eichhörnchen, das in Veblens Garten haust. Oder diese dubiose medizinische Veteranen-Studie, die Paul leitet. Ganz zu schweigen von den größten Minenfeldern: den jeweiligen Familien. Schon das erste Treffen zwischen Paul und Veblens Mutter eskaliert fast völlig. Schließlich ist er Arzt – und sie passionierte Hypochonderin. Aber auch Pauls Eltern, zwei Vollblut-Hippies, sind nicht gerade leicht zu handhaben. Es gilt also, diverse zwischenmenschliche Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, bis der Tag der Trauung kommt. Falls er kommt. ›Im Kern eine Liebesgeschichte‹ erzählt davon, was wir im anderen suchen, und von einem lebenslangen Kampf: der Emanzipation von den eigenen Eltern. Dieser im besten Sinne amerikanische Familienroman illustriert, was passiert, wenn man nicht aufhört, das Leben zu zerdenken. Er hält uns den Spiegel vor – und unterhält uns dabei doch hervorragend.

Roman

Im Kern eine Liebesgeschichte

Orphaned as a child, twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about what happened to his mother and why, following a trail of clues that leads to the San Francisco mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware and into the middle of the eccentric Ware family, including Carolyn, Charles's enigmatic daughter, whose past is as shrouded in mystery as his own. Original. 15,000 first printing.

MacGregor Tells the World

A series of interconnected short stories documents the life of Ann Ransom, as well as her relationship with her family and her perspective on the world, in a collection that includes "We Know Where We Are, But Not Why" and "SOS."

A Novel in Stories

Stop that Girl

Forget about a recipe for success. There's. No. Such. Thing. At least, that's what Elizabeth McKenzie - lover of boys, jump-starter of her own career, and all-around average woman - has discovered. This is her coming-of-age story. The one where she transforms into the loud-mouthed, semi-successful, semi-hot, self-important adult she is today.The 30 Somethings is a collection of stories and thoughts broken down into three acts*: babes, bods and business. You'll laugh out loud as Elizabeth exposes the phenomenon of the internet #ladyboss, throws down tips on how to make boys think you're hot (even if your body is shaped like a fruit #nojudgement) and reveals the romantic fairytale of eye-banging her boyfriend for the first time.Part memoir, part self-help guide, The 30 Somethings is all honesty.* Suitable for those with very short attention spans."With the help of self-publishing, it's never been easier for an amateur like Elizabeth to pitch herself as the voice of a generation and attempt to impart lessons onto an unwilling world." Elizabeth's best friend, Yen

Life Lessons of a 30-Something That You Probably Already Know

The 30 Somethings

This selection of new work by some of Japan's most eminent observers and artists offers a richly nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between Japan and the U.S. in the long aftermath of war.Includes an Interview with former Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi MotoshimaThe photography of Shomei TomatsuA Play by Masataka MatsudaThe illustrated diary of Noboru Tokuda, soldier in the Imperial ArmyAnd featuring fiction, poetry and essays by: Deni Y. Bechard * Christopher Yohmei Blasdel * Hiroshi Fukurai * Ryuta Imafuku * Setsuko Ishiguro * Roland Kelts * Mari Kotani * Leza Lowitz * Janice Nakao * Shogo Oketani * Tami Sakiyama * Kim Shi-Jong* Keijiro Suga * Iona Sugihara * Goro Takano * Ben Takara* Takayuki Tatsumi * Stewart Wachs * Stephen Woodhams * Kentaro Yamaki * Katsunori Yamazato

New Writings from Japan and Okinawa

My Postwar Life

Chicago Quarterly Review

Featuring work by: Chris Arp * Jennifer Bannan * Keri Bentz * Barbara Blades * Alan Bodnar * Jessica Breheny * Ricardo Cazares * Jinwoo Chong * Stephen Cramer * Jose Hernandez Diaz * Kerry James Evans * Shannon Fandler * Mohan Fitzgerald * Stephen Gibson * Henrietta Goodman * Benjamin S. Grossberg * Joe Imwalle * Juan Ramón Jiménez * Elizabeth Kadetsky * Scott Karambis * Peter Kessler * Chuck Kramer * Dorianne Laux * Brian Ma * Ken Malatesta * Michael Milburn * Julie Murphy * Devin Thomas O'Shea * Zack Rogow * aureleo sans * Lisa Sardinas * Devin Schiff * David Sheskin * Scott Spencer * Wally Swist * Sara Truuvert * Gemini Wahhaj * Charlie Watts * Ian Randall Wilson * Laura Budofsky Wisniewski

Chicago Quarterly Review #36

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost. Keenly funny and highly original, Stop That Girl is a brilliant examination of the exigencies of love and the fragile fabric of family, and heralds the emergence of a remarkable new voice in fiction.

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