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  • In Medias Res

    Life has grabbed me intensely since the last blog. I am deeply involved in “marketing” Down to a Sunless Sea. I am concentrating, for those out there who are writers or want to live the writer’s life, whatever that is, on the “blogosphere.” Diligently, working with blog directories (see “litblog,” to wit)), I am discovering […]

  • ALLBOOKS REVIEW of DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA

       Shirley Roe, Allbooks Review Editor, just emailed me the first review of Down to a Sunless Sea. It is proof that the writer is often the last to know his worth as an artist. How do you follow a book such as The i Tetralogy?  I moved from the Holocaust, to the holocausts within our […]

  • Juan Person’s Hands, from Down to a Sunless Sea, Winter 2008

    The New York Times reported that the hands of Juan Peron had been removed from his body. A minister was quoted as calling the act “savage.” Seagulls. Are there seagulls in Argentina? Do they soar, catching the spiraling updrafts off the coast of the Argentine? And are there dwarfs, scurrying hither and thither, thumping creatures […]

  •      Welcome! I’m Mathias B. Freese (“Matt”). I’ve created this respite as a writer’s oasis. Tarry a while, for it is here that I share and express who I am. It is all about me, although I may be of no particular interest to you. And that may very well be the point. I persevere as […]