by Carla Seaquist | Mar 20, 2020 | Review
Canadian and American audiences are ready for some dramatic transcendence. That was the hopeful theme that emerged from a debate at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last weekend where I was moderating a conversation about whether theatre matters between two...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Review
Review of If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit, by Brenda Ueland (Graywolf Press). The following is an imagined interview with Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), a writer and teacher, written by Carla Seaquist upon reading the above title, first...
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....
