by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Review
Depleted by minimalism? Freaked for our future by the literary Brat Pack? Yearning for another feisty female voice? Meet Lucille Odom, 17, narrator of Josephine Humphreys’ second novel, Rich in Love, and direct descendant of Eudora Welty’s narrator in Why I Live at...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Review
Michael Malone’s comic novel is about a young retiring drama professor finally drop-kicked into action by a playwright who’s a boor to his nearest and dearest but “the nation’s Chekhov” to the anonymous audience. It is a rollicking take on the conflict of Art vs....
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Short Story
Look, I’ll be straight with you—and none of this is for publication. The Secret Service is, after all, secret. But when Mac pulled me off the President’s detail and assigned me to head Hers, I protested—big-time. The Service has two missions: protection and...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Short Story
O Maurice! Where is thy briefcase? O former desk-mate! Where is thy brio? Maybe it’s my imagination acting in a highly irregular way, but Maurice’s presence is still so vivid that I look over at his old desk and, I swear, it actually “vibrates” with his “aura,” if...
