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  • Sweet Review And Spiffy Interview

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    Matt

    I’ve had no chance to post since I was visited by my son; however,while he was here a very fine review of Down to a Sunless Sea came in from Ascent Aspirations, David Fraser, editor. See: http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/downtoasunlesssea.htm. And Edwin Turner at Biblioklept interviewed me via emails. See http://biblioklept.org/2008/05/09/the-biblioklept-interview-mathias-freese/ The more significant news is that I placed as a Finalist for THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARDS 2008. As the announcement says: “A publicity and marketing campaign announcing the award results is already underway and will continue throughout early June. At the Book Expo America in Los Angeles, we will be mailing…

  • In This Flesh

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    Matt

    I walk around in this flesh, dying each day, containing bowels and brains, maggots and bacteria, sweaty pores and rectal exits and bypasses, behaving as if I know what I am about. It is a horrific joke, quite trying, to realize that not much is accomplished each day and what is accomplished is defined by the apparatchik of society, the molecular bullshit that drives each culture and conditions all of us. A truly free man might commit suicide, so bereft by his isolation, so apart from his kind. Someone once said that a good psychotherapist is not a little naive,…

  • Out Of Sorts: A Short Lemmonade Today

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    Matt

    I’m feeling out of sorts, depressed, angry and hostile, pissed and peeved, fed-up, annoyed and aggravated. I don’t suffer fools, but then there are so many, I allow a few to enter. As I age I see that I am more intolerant of foibles, less empathetic, irritable, impatient, anxious that I can’t have my own way, bristlng and surly. I imagine parts of me are calcifying, shutting down, as characterological values are becoming arthritic. The inner rigidities I have borne all my life are as dorsal finned as any hidebound stegosaurus. I don’t want to stop this ever hardening of cranky…

  • Interviews Of Late

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    Matt

    Derek Alger completed an interview with me and I went overboard in my response. The piece will be published in June or in September. Edwin Turner, who recently reviewed Down to a Sunless Sea, requested an interview as well; his site is www.bibliolkept.com. Alger is an editor on Pif magazine which is a significant magazine in the field. The questions posed by both interviewers got me cooking and I’ve notice some answers are becoming somewhat stale; I’ll have to work on that. I have a few more pieces from my ongoing memoir about the fires on Mt. Lemmon. I may have bored…