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,...
From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie's beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom.Sto...
The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel-at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story-capturing a young man's impossible and heroic first love. Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother's untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware, where he encounters the writer's beautiful and enigmatic daughter, Carolyn, trapped in a fold-up...
The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel-at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, an...
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor
The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is...
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction
Chicago Quarterly Review Syed a. Haider Elizabeth McKenzie
"The work of some of the city's brightest young talents is here--Full of energy and coltish inventiveness." Rick Kogan, The Chicago Tribune This 20th anniversary issue celebrates the city of Chicago and features work by: John Blades * Robert Brown * Rosellen Brown * Marcia Cavell * Steve Cejtin * Garnett Kilberg Cohen * James Crizer * Don De Grazia * Olga Domchenko * Jason Economus * Donald G. Evans * Art Fox * Gina Frangello * Jack Fuller * Syed Afzal Haider * David Hart * Jan Herman * Susan Hogan * Andy Holt * Gary Houston * Paul Nicholas Jones * Robert Kameczura * L.M. Kell * Robert...
"The work of some of the city's brightest young talents is here--Full of energy and coltish inventiveness." Rick Kogan, The Chicago Tribune This ...
Chicago Quarterly Review Syed Afzal Haider Elizabeth McKenzie
Featuring work by: C. Wade Bentley * Jill Birdsall * Christopher Buckley * Peyton Burgess * Harmony Button * John Byrne * Yoon Choi * Colette * Jordan J. Coriza * Philippe Desportes * Willer de Oliveira * celeste doaks * Thomas A. Dodson * Ali Eteraz * Anthony Feggans * Peter Ferry * Sierra Golden * Rumi Hara * Joseph Holt * Bryn Homuth * Matthew Huff * Ryan Michael Johnson * Samantha Killmeyer * Thomas Lee * Ilya Leybovich * Cathleen Maza * Joao Melo * Jacqueline Michaud * Michael Milburn * Dan Moreau * Renee Morel * Carrie Mullins * Jacob Newberry * Naomi O'Hara * Claire Harlan Orsi * Ed...
Featuring work by: C. Wade Bentley * Jill Birdsall * Christopher Buckley * Peyton Burgess * Harmony Button * John Byrne * Yoon Choi * Colette * Jordan...
Chicago Quarterly Review Syed a. Haider Elizabeth McKenzie
Featuring work by: Roy Bentley * Randall Brown * Luis Cernuda * Alan Cheuse * Nick Courtright * Johnny Damm * Kathryn deLancellotti * Temma Ehrenfeld * Myron Ernst * Donka Farkas * David Frankel * RL Goldberg * Benjamin E. Golden * Katherine Heiny * Lucien Herve * David William Hill * Coby Hoffman * Gary Houston * Patty Houston * Romana Iorga * Trilby Kent * Stephen Kessler * Christine Kitano * Osip Mandelstam * Deborah Marshall * Jacqueline Michaud * Jack Nicholls * Douglas Penick * Jacques Prevert * Diana Reaves * Esteban Rodriguez * Zack Rogow * Chuck Rosenthal * Evie Rucker * Catherine...
Featuring work by: Roy Bentley * Randall Brown * Luis Cernuda * Alan Cheuse * Nick Courtright * Johnny Damm * Kathryn deLancellotti * Temma Ehrenfeld ...
Chicago Quarterly Review Syed Afzal Haider Elizabeth McKenzie
Featuring work by: Aliki Barnstone * Sharon Barrett * Heather Bowlan * Margaret Chula * Stephen Cloud * Douglas Cole * Diana Crane * David Downie * Peter Ferry * Mauricio Montiel Figueiras * Victor Florence * Edward Garner * Rumi Hara * Natalie S. Harnett * Charles Holdefer * Gary Houston * Suzanne Jill Levine * Erin Lillo * Julia Malye * Michael P. McManus * Devin Murphy * James Paradiso * Charles Parsons * Harry Mark Petrakis * Nicolette Polek * Trenton Pollard * Richard Rapaport * James Reiss * Timothy Richard * Jonathan Rose * Ryan Salazar * Jay Shearer * Peter Stine * Goro Takano *...
Featuring work by: Aliki Barnstone * Sharon Barrett * Heather Bowlan * Margaret Chula * Stephen Cloud * Douglas Cole * Diana Crane * David Downie * Pe...
