The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie is out today, and to celebrate we’re offering a nugget sized chunk of literary goodness for your commute/night-time read/tea break.
Name: Elizabeth McKenzie
Book: The Portable Veblen
What’s it about?
Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She’s an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on.
