Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States of America. Mainstream media and at least 50% of the US population (plus approximately 100% of the world) are still reeling. Here’s how 4th Estate authors met the news the morning of November 9th, 2016.
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.