title: Love Trouble: New and Collected Work
author:  Veronica Geng 
description: If there is such a thing as a writer's writer, then the late, beloved Veronica Geng was a humorist's humorist. Geng set herself complicated objects of satire much like poets might challenge themselves to write in an especially difficult form. In the title story, for instance, she riffs on a <i>Village Voice</i> clipping that announced, "This may be the only time in history in which the words 'Mr. Reagan' and 'read Proust' will appear in the same sentence." The resulting sketch, naturally, uses the terms "Mr. Reagan" and "read Proust" in <i>every</i> sentence, with pleasingly surreal results. Contrived? Certainly--but that's the point. A virtuoso mimic, Geng thrived on unlikely juxtapositions. She could reproduce the thickest academese as skillfully as baseball commentary, corporate doublethink, or the prose rhythms of Henry James--even, perhaps preferably, all four at once. (She was also not above a really stunningly odiferous pun--as in "My Mao," for instance, when the Great Leader pleads with his lover, "Please don't squeeze the Chairman.") Here is LBJ baiting an elderly George Bernard Shaw; Flannery O'Connor trading love letters with S.J. Perelman; Richard Nixon tapes reviewed  la <i>Rolling Stone</i>. And who could forget the Eliot pastiche from "Teaching Poetry Writing to Singles"?
zlib_text: THE CONSEQUENCE OF LOVING ME
  AFTERSHOCK SERIES: VOL. I
  
  KAT SINGLETON
  
  CONTENTS
  1. Veronica
  2. Veronica
  3. Maverick
  4. Veronica
  5. Veronica
  6. Maverick
  7. Veronica
  8. Veronica
  9. Veronica
  10. Veronica
  11. Veronica
  12. Maverick
  13. Veronica
  14. Veronica
  15. Maverick
  16. Veronica
  17. Maverick
  18. Veronica
  19. Veronica
  20. Maverick
  21. Veronica
  22. Veronica
  23. Veronica
  24. Maverick
  25. Veronica
  26. Maverick
  27. Veronica
  28. Veronica
  29. Maverick
  30. Maverick
  31. Veronica
  32. Maverick
  33. Veronica
  34. Veronica
  35. Maverick
  36. Veronica
  37. Maverick
  38. Veronica
  39. Veronica
  40. Veronica
  41. Veronica
  42. Maverick
  Epilogue
  Acknowledgments
  
  About the Author
  REVIEW
  Extras
  
  The Consequence of Loving Me
  Aftershock Series: Vol. I
  Copyright © 2020 by Kat Singleton
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