On Muses

23 Sep 2014 No Comments

On Muses

Be patient with your muse, I was recently told. Maybe my mentor sensed my feeling of being time crunched and frustrated. Since working on my second creative portfolio I have bumped into too many false starts. And since I am the author of two forthcoming novels, Year of the Wood Horse and The Chimerican, due(…)

by Matt in Memoir, Traveling Tags: , ,

13 Sep 2014 No Comments

Returning to Sardinia

This October I will return to Sardinia.   According to legend, the island was founded by Sardus, a son of Heracles. But who is Grazia Deledda? That is what I’d rather know more about as I read her 1913 novel, Reeds in the Wind.   Just beginning her novel, I am struck by its beauty–not(…)

by Matt in Book Review, Memoir

09 Sep 2014 No Comments

Open Letter to the Shade of Max Planck (RIP)

You once said, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” But what if you are living in a Second Dark Age? I am writing you at a(…)

by Matt in Letters, Review