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  • The Skinny on Sojourner

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    Matt

    After writing a book of short stories and a Holocaust fiction, what I write now weighs on me. It reminds me of that writer’s cliche of having to come up to the parity of the first published book; the second novel, I suppose, is a killer. The irony about Sojourner is that it emerged from […]

  • Untidy Lives, I Say to Myself

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    Matt

    February is a bleak month for me. I light a candle for Rochelle, now dead for nine years. On February 11 she would have been 71. On February 15, 1970 we were wed. And on February 14 is St. Valentine’s day, consumer mischief day. So February was a combination of events for us and now […]

  • The 2008 PODBRAM Awards and SubtleTea.Com Publication

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    Matt

    PODBRAM is a POD review site offering legitimate book reviews to deserving print on demand, self-published, and small and large press authors and their readers. The i Tetralogy has won for fiction. An essay I wrote on this blog was read by editor, David Herrle, of Subtletea and he requested that I submit it to […]

  • A Remarkable Review by Mayra Calvani

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    Matt

    Mayra Calvani did an incisive interview with me some months back.  She also reviewed Down to a Sunless Sea quite favorably. Her site is darkphantom.com and she now freelances at Today.com. A novelist and reviewer, she is the recent author of a book on reviewing on blogs. I asked if she might review The i […]