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  • Brother, can you spare a dime?

    We stayed at the Palmer House in Chicago, with a solid history in the town dating back to a bash attended by Mark Twain. It is situated on Wabash Avenue with a cranky el above the street that covers the Loop and other destinations. The Art Institute of Chicago which is on handsome and wide […]

  • AWARDS!

    Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Mathias B. Freese Wins an NIEA for 2012, and more…  The sixth annual National Indie Excellence Awards were announced last month. On behalf of Serving House Journal, I’m delighted to share with our readers that a collection of essays by Mathias B. Freese, This Möbius Strip of Ifs, took first place […]

  • FLASH! 2012 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS IN NON-FICTION

    While composing this announcement, I just learned that This Möbius Strip of Ifs is the winner of the 2012 National Indie Excellence Book Award!  See particulars at indieexcellence.com. I am delighted to say that my story collection “I Truly Lament – Working Through the Holocaust” has been chosen as a finalist in the 2012 Leapfrog […]

  • Alice’s Restaurant

    …That once there was a wisp of glory called Camelot…Don’t let it be forgot   That once there was a spot   For one brief shining moment that was known   As Camelot Director Arthur Penn had the prescience to make a film about the Sixties, Alice’s Restaurant, and in this instance, the waning of that era, 1968 and […]