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  • “Black Narcissus” and other films of note

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    Matt

    I just got a 50 inch HDTV. Both my fiancee, what an odd word at my age, and my son, Jordan, 31, have urged me to make the purchase…so I have made merry. When Ben Hur makes his big move in the hippodrome, the chariot wheels brutally cross my bed. Films such as “Black Narcissus” (Michael Powell) come across vividly, and my childhood avatar, Sabu, plays a horny prince infatuated with the poor man’s Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Simmons. The psycho-sexual tones among the nuns is delicious as well as the repressed sexual hysteria. Remember Simmons in “The Big Country” and Lean’s “Great Expectations.”…

  • 2008 Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award Winner

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    Matt

    For the second year in a row I have won this award, once for The i Tetralogy. of course, I am elated and surprised. I had no idea that this small book of stories had such strength to it. It is a collection that spans 33 years. I learned how to write with short stories, to get to the point, to shag the fly, to say much less than much more. I found it not bitter, but ironically sweet that I am receiving awards at this autumnal stage of my life. Duff Brenna, novelist, reviewed the book at perigee-art.com so…

  • Anonymous Comment

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    Matt

    I want to respond to the comment that one –me — might be exasperated by all the hassles involved in marketing one’s own book, that there is so much dreck out there that makes money, that knowing this may make one siimply capitulate to the capitalists. To answer this is for me to explain why I continued to write for 40 years, replete with rejections that were supportive as well as cutting and cruel as I set out to make myself a writer. I was moved to explain me to me, to deal with my depression, to understand my life,…

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    Matt