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Nina’s Memento Mori, Part 1
In a few weeks I will submit my final edit of the above book which is an elegy and homage to my deceased wife, Nina. It is a moment of loose ends, checking the cover of the book as well as the back cover spiel by editor, David Herrle, who was also the consulting editor to what is now my eighth book. When all is completed it will go to the publisher’s editor for her final input and then back again to me to read once more and end tinkering with words and punctuation. Hopefully it goes to the printer…
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QUAQUAVERSAL
I feel compelled, as a writer, to introduce you to my own idiosyncratic ways of going about writing a story. The creative process, as I observe, might prove of worth to reveal as I experience it. After finishing and publishing TESSRAE: A MEMOIR OF TWO SUMMERS I lay fallow. I never know what the next book will be about but I do know that I will begin something as my need to write has not been stifled by age or an arthritic mind. I observe myself or as Krishnamurti wrote, “The observer is the observed.” Chew on that for a…
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Sanitizing Wernher von Braun
I advocate that the Wernher von Braun Center be renamed. Perhaps call it the Goring Complex, since Braun and Goring were members of the Nazi party. Goring’s Luftwaffe rained down death over Europe and Braun launched over 9,521 Cruise-like missiles to England, beginning on 13 June 1944. Braun’s membership in the Nazi Party is dated 12 November 1937 and his membership number is 5,730,692. If you need to reference this, use Wikipedia for basic facts. Or, if you require a more substantial historical source, any major work on the rise of Nazism will suffice. The English historian Sir Ian Kershaw is…
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ANTHONY AVINA INTERVIEWS MATHIAS B. FREESE
March 13, 2018 1) Tell us a little bit about yourself. How did you get into writing? Never begin a sentence with “well.” [a writer should break rules.]Well, writing, for me, was characterological. It was a consequence of a repressed and depressed childhood and adulthood. It was the spume of a discontented and directionless youth, of misspent energies and unclear goals. It was the product of an outer directed self. Aimless, un-fathered and un-mothered, I was benign neglect incarnate. There is much truth in the adage that we grow old too soon and smart too late. 2) What inspired you…