The Vicarious Traveler (The Lowestoft Chronicle 2019 Anthology)

The latest volume in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, The Vicarious Traveler, is published this month. This, the ninth collection, features work by: Philip Barbara, Elaine Barnard, Douglas Cole, Michael Coolen, Rob Dinsmoor, Mary Donaldson-Evans, Joan Frank, Katie Frankel, Sharon Frame Gay, Dave Gregory, Mark Halpern, M. T. Ingoldby, Michael C. Keith, Jean L. Kreiling, Brian James Lewis, Timothy J. Lockhart, David Macpherson, Diane G. Martin, Matt Mason, Matthew P. Mayo, Robert Garner McBrearty, Matthew Menary, Joe Mills, Matthew Mitchell, Dan Morey, Lawrence Morgan, James B. Nicola, Valerie Nieman, Don Noel, Olga Pavlinova Olenich, Robert Perron, Thomas Piekarski, Richard Charles Schaefer, Gary Singh, and Robert Wexelblatt.

The collection includes a foreword by Michael C. Keith, a professor emeritus at Boston College who is best known for his memoir The Next Better Place. Keith Rosson, author of the literary novels The Mercy of the Tide and Smoke City, praised the collection for its “sly humor” and “clear reverence of story.” Linda Boroff, screenwriter of the notable independent movie Murder in Fashion, dubbed it a “cornucopia of riveting tales and vivid poetry,” while crime fiction author Timothy J. Lockhart praised the editor for his “admirable work in selecting and presenting a memorable miscellany of fiction, nonfiction, and verse that beckons to literary travelers and leads them onward from one entertaining stop to another.”

The Vicarious Traveler is available from all the major online booksellers, including AmazonBarnes & Noble, or directly from the publisher.

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Founded in September 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is a quarterly online literary magazine publishing travel-related fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.