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  • Best Review So Far

    LEATHERBOUNDPOUNDS February 3, 2015 I Truly Lament by Mathias B. Freese By leatherboundpounds Imagine agony is in the rendering. Feel what I have to say and don’t be indifferent. In the preface to his collection of short stories on the Holocaust Mathias B. Freese says it is a story that no-one could ever tell in entirety. He […]

  • BUT WHY ANOTHER BOOK ON THE HOLOCAUST?

    If the murder of millions is something we must become numb to, in order to persevere, then I disagree. It is as if memory must be dismissed for present life and living. Need it be? Granted, I do not think about a serf in twelfth-century France. Perhaps I should, but I don’t. Our species itself […]

  • QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE I TETRALOGY AND I TRULY LAMENT

     Raison d’Être Can you reconstruct the creative process that led you to write The i Tetralogy? i wrote itself. i was written in white heat over a two-week period; it was as if I were channeling my unconscious. I believe that this first of four books on the Holocaust simmered and percolated inside me, away […]

  • J.B. GARNER’S REVIEW

    Starving Review: I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust by Mathias B. Freese I Truly Lament: Walking Through the Holocaust by Mathias B. Freese (Amazon, Goodreads) Not all literary meals are laid out on the table purely for the stuffing of the reader’s face with new entertainment.  Some have a purpose behind their creation and other […]