Mathias B. Freese's Blog

My book, In the Throes, was recently featured on Shepherd.com, a book recommendation website. I shared 5 books that inspired me when writing In the Throes, in the hopes that readers will find my book, and others with similar themes that they’ll enjoy. Titled “The best books to awaken your mind to spiritual and psychological […]

By Mathias Freese Thoreau said it best, “to live deliberately,” probably the best use of anadverb in the English language. Yet, how do we go about livingmoment to moment? The answer is written on the wind. As my humanmechanism deliberately falls prey to aging, I see less clearly at nightat the wheel, my driving skills […]

Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers’ Favorite Set in a brutal apocalyptic world with two suns, Mathias B. Freese’s In The Throes follows the story of a creature that unexpectedly attains awareness. The only thing Gruff’s undeveloped mind could fathom as he opened his eyes to the world was that the Close One’s slashes didn’t […]

By Mathias Freese In 1974 an editor, without my knowledge, submitted my story, “Herbie,”to Martha Foley, editor of the prestigious annual anthology, The BestAmerican Short Stories of 1974. In a section called “Distinctive ShortStories of 1974.” I was listed, unfortunately, with the wrong author’sname. That is another story. I was notified that Foley, who had […]

By Mathias Freese At a summer’s writers conference in Athens State University inAlabama, I was on a panel with a media specialist [Caylah Coffeen of Creative Cornerstones] and two other writers. The panel met after I had taught a workshop on self-awareness — or what Khrishnamurti called the awakening of intelligence which was the theme […]

By Mathias Freese Listening Now to Puccini’s Aria, Che gelidamanina Sung by Alfredo Kraus Tis a riddle. How to sustain my innermost feelings about all things as Ievanesce into atoms that have long composed my bodily self. As Ireflect about the major chords in my existence, one looms most. It isthe passion of the mind; […]

By Mathias B. Freese I am in Chicago now. I left to visit my son, Jordan; Mary, my wife,wanted to see her sister, Jenny, after many years away from herhometown. By Lake Michigan, a vast expanse from shore, with itsfertile coastal area and abundant wild life — rabbits nonchalantlysquatting mutely and a flock of unruly […]

By Mathias B. Freese As an undergrad and American history major at Queens College, 1958 to 1962, I recall reading in a text by Henry Steele Commager, his observation that Churchill represented an “antique courage” during the early years of WW II. He remarked that Churchill  essentially accomplished what Edward R. Murrow described as “to mobilize […]

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 an alien world. Winner of […]

Thank you to Andreas Michaelides of A.M. News for such a thoughtful and celebratory review of my novel, In the Throes. She 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 an alien world. Winner of the Science […]