Category: Commentary

  • Book Review – From Survival to Self-Awareness: In the Throes Triumphs as a Visionary Sci-Fi Masterpiece

    Book Review – From Survival to Self-Awareness: In the Throes Triumphs as a Visionary Sci-Fi Masterpiece

    Thank you to Andreas Michaelides of the blog A.M. News for such a thoughtful and celebratory review of my novel, In the Throes. He shares, “In the Throes by Mathias B. Freese is not just a book—it’s an experience that delves deep into the human condition through the lens of…

  • Tonsils and the Forties

    At the end of W.W. II I was five and by the time of the Korean War I was ten. In that decade I was shaped and configured by my environment for the rest of my days. In the Forties I was most unaware of my self, impassive and passive,…

  • After Reading a Few Pages of London’s The Sea Wolf

     3 AM Musings  From a literary friend and editor of an online mag a response to “Archipelago,” one of the stories I am working on now for my next book. Beyond the pale, beyond good or bad taste, it just exists, a written splat thrown up into the sky, hanging there insolently.…

  • Guest Blog by Jane Freese: A Fine Line

    Last month I was fortunate to witness a movie being made by Jordan Freese, assisted by Brendan Jamieson and featuring my husband Matt.  It took all day Saturday and most of Sunday to film (or rather digitally record) a teleplay that will probably end up running less than 15 minutes.…