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From "An Impossible Life" by Murzban F. Shroff, Murzban F. Shroff, CQR #39: "And if there is one thing that life teaches you, it is that it remains an impossible project, it brings unlikely villains to your door, whom you are expected to endure. Why is that your burden?"

🎙Live Podcast Recording of First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North in conversation with host Mitzi Rapkin. #PRLF #PrintersRowLitFest

The CQR 30th Anniversary Reading and Celebration chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2024/09/18/the…

From "Policarpo" by Patricia Engel Patricia Engel , CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Gabriel never had trouble meeting women when he wasn’t supposed to be meeting women. Now that he was divorced and it was finally appropriate, it was as if he’d paled into wall plaster..."

I’m happy to have my short story, The Bear, included in The 30th Anniversary Issue of Chicago Quarterly Review. What a great thing to have my story about a nervous Californian worrying about bears in the North Carolina woods published along side so many other good writers.

From "In Search Of Herzog's Chicago" by Charles Kenney, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "The day had a Bellovian quality to it, by which I mean its beauty was so apparent that the world lent itself to being described in exhaustive, unexacting detail."

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Congrats to Chicago Quarterly Review & Elizabeth McKenzie on this incredible 30th anniversary issue!

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Pushed from the Nest symphonyspace.org/selected-short… via Symphony Space

The final story on this Selected Shorts episode, Pushed From the Nest, is read by Mia Dillon. In Elizabeth McKenzie's “Hope Ranch,” a granddaughter discovers that her grandmother is a road warrior. Listen now at: symphonyspace.org/selected-short….

For Christmas I am giving my middle daughter The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie. I suggest y'all do the same. Elizabeth McKenzie shorturl.at/Eb3J6

For Anthony Awards ballot, I have two short stories eligible from 2024: “The Great Gimmelmans” from Mystery Tribune “Sublime Evil” from Chicago Quaterly Review Thanks all who are voting. See you in Bcon!

While Her Body Struggles to Stay Alive, Her Brain Writes Porn nytimes.com/2025/03/17/boo…

Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30-7:30, Catamaran will host readings by contributors to our Garden Issue at the 🌸 Hakone Gardens 🌸 21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA. eventbrite.com/e/catamaran-ga… #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #literaryevents