Author: Matt

  • “I Am Cultivating The Faculty of Patient Expectancy.” — Chesterton

    When I was about 12 or 13 I caught a film in the Oceana movie theater in Brighton Beach. In those days you  just went to the “movies.”  “Captain’s Paradise,” if I have the title right. It was in black and white, starring Alec Guinness and Yvonne DeCarlo. The premise was…

  • WINNER OF THE SUBTLETEA SUMMER WRITING CONTEST 2008

    “CAMERAS AS REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST” October – December 2008 Edition. David Herrle, editor of Subtletea (www.subtletea.com) has selected the above essay as the winner of his magazine’s summer contest. I am particularly honored because David Herrle is a polymath of the first order. When you access my essay, I urge you…

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: POD REVIEWER FOR BREENI BOOKS

    Sabrina Williams has reviewed both of my books at Breenibooks, http://breenibooks.blogspot.com/.  Her reviews ( see them both at her site)  went far beyond what a writer might expect, especially her review of The i Tetralogy. So I responded very recently to her notice about POD reviewers and her open and diverse thinking…

  • This Day’s Mental Lint

    I’ve written on this blog before about this need to read and collect books as if trophies. Specifically, on many blogs there are “challenges,” which means, I gather, to read as many books as possible over a week-end, or a year. The challenges can be focused: mysteries, or an author, thematic…