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  • CHICAGO. . .CHICAGO

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    Matt

    I want to share some of my impressions of Chicago since I now live in Green Valley, Arizona, a geriatric and retirement community which is comprised of somnabulists. Of course, being a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, any city is home to me. The visual verticality of skyscrapers and high rises as well as the individuality of […]

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

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    Matt

    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 simple: here is a captain […]

  • WINNER OF THE SUBTLETEA SUMMER WRITING CONTEST 2008

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    Matt

    “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 to peruse the contents of […]

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: POD REVIEWER FOR BREENI BOOKS

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    Matt

    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 about publishing on demand in […]