Author: Matt

  • Self-Grandiosity, and Other Things

    In perusing my name on Google I came across a letter written by one of my former students in the 10th grade advanced class, Jason Levine. The New York Times published it, among other letters to the editor, after I kicked up a dust devil in the community. In an earlier…

  • Extracts

    The complete interview can be found by going to Subtle Tea under links. Look for it under the magazine’s archives. And to get an idea of how David writes, see his review of The i Tetralogy.

  • Forever Pregnant

    When I was teaching 10th grade English in a nouveau riche Long Island suburb, while I was going for a degree in social work and then a three year certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and writing for me in study halls, late at night and Saturdays, I did not grasp the…

  • I’m Looking out my Window and at This moment

    When I read recent reviews of Down to a Sunless Sea I feel not a few of them are so skewed that I cannot imagine what is going on in the reviewers’ minds. “Mortise and Tenon” which is essentially about a controlled and repressed young boy now leads a reviewer to…