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Author: Matt

  • Free Associations

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    Matt

    I have no particular theme to write about. I have no jawbone of an ass as Samson had to fight off the Philistines. A series of mental quarks come to mind and why fight them off. I saw Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” last evening surrounded by a gray-haired audience, including me,…

  • I Am With Child And Worry About Its Health

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    Matt

    Sojourner is the present manuscript I am enmeshed with, and it is not going well because I have lost faith in it. The second half of the book moves quickly, the first half seems too slow paced, although I have cut here and there. I lack the editing skills to…

  • Down to a Sunless Sea Winner of Sixth Annual Noble Prize for Literature

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    Matt

    It is the Noble (Not Nobel) Prize for 2008. If you go to http://www.myshelf.com and press the Back to Literature column a little blurb comments on the book. Allow me to cite Carolyn Howard-Johnson at length: They say self-deprecating humor can be a good thing. So, know that the authors I pick for…

  • Peter Lorre, Emigre, Star of M, Face-Maker, Mis-Used, Actor’s Actor

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    Matt

    Several months back I saw Fritz Lang’s M in which Peter Lorre introduced himself to cinema. In the film he is a child molester and murderer;  for the greater part of the movie we see Lorre at angles, in shadows and then we catch that face with eyes as big…