Love Trouble Is My Business

In Love Trouble: A Romance, acclaimed humorist Veronica Geng shares her biting observations on government-speak, gender relations, academia, the media, love lives, restaurants, airplanes, and baseball fans. In this collection of satirical pieces and short humorous fiction, Geng turns up hilarities large and small in all these realms. Often, Ian Frazier writes in his introduction (which is included here), her writing was the purest satire, in the sense that its preferred outcome would be for its object to fall down dead. Always attuned to the way things sound, Geng was a wicked parodist, a mimic of voices from Henry James to Chandlers private eyes; from LBJ to Pat Robertson. Love Trouble confirms Veronica Gengs place as one of our greatest humorists—who helped to carry the tradition of S. J. Perelman and James Thurber to its illogical conclusion.