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The Winnebago Man and Dick Cheney
In 2010 a documentary was made of Jack Rebney, Winnebago salesman. For years, outtakes from a promotional film for the Winnebago company featuring Jack Rebney as its spokesman had gone viral. Apparently the appeal here was that Jack had a special talent which was his capacity to cathartically curse when he was frustrated with a failed shot or technical mishap while filming his Winnebago commercials. A tall man with a fine speaking voice, he had been a broadcaster for news programs at an earlier time, but I am getting ahead of myself. What matters is Jack’s way with curse words. When he…
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The Author Reviews His Own Book, This Mobius Strip of Ifs
After sampling some reviews but far from all, I thought I might offer my own take on my book as a kind of guide to the perplexed. At 71 Freese sets out in these thirty-six essays written over several decades, some fairly recent, some penned in the 80’s and 90s, to assess his own life as he looks back. Something of a maverick, something of a malnurtured critter, he reveals here and there, as if crags embedded in his prose, a meandering river of rage. Cognizant of this, knowing how it has tainted and tortured himself as well as having hurt his…
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Quo Vadis
Reviews sluggishly come out and what they reveal, from my perspective, are generational conflicts; misreadings of what I have written and a few salient criticisms which I have had to swallow and digest, resolving to do better next time. At times only one or two essays from out of 36 are honed in for special criticism, as if the blogger chooses not to evaluate or assess the total thematic sweep of the book. Assumptions are made about me which are grossly erroneous but what can the blogger do but assess what is written before him. Am I what I have written or…
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Interview
Interview : Mathias B. Freese by Vibha Sharma | on April 30th, 2012 | Literary Sojourn Mathias B. Freese is a multifaceted personality who is a teacher, a psychotherapist and an author. I got a chance to read and review(here) one of his books – This Mobius Strip of Ifs and was quite impressed by his writing style and the sincere way in which he has shared his life with his readers. It was a pleasure to conduct an e-interview with him for our readers here. 1. When did you start writing your experiences in the book form ? How…