Photo of Mr. Matheny by Marc Fennell, from the official website.
Lots of interesting stuff in the latest Joseph Matheny Substack newsletter, and I would encourage you to read the whole thing. There's a lot that I won't try to summarize, but here's a particularly newsworthy bit: He's working on a movie!
[After some anecdotes about other attempts to adapt Ong's Hat that haven't worked out] "So, I’m going independent. I’ll develop my own feature-length movie, retaining full creative control. That’s the only way it’ll get made to my standards—and the only way it won’t be hijacked and diluted into mediocrity. I’m working on a treatment and script that weaves elements of Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT and The Liminal Cycle into a new, third thing. I intend to create something that doesn’t fit the content factory molds, so I will necessarily have to create it outside that system. I don't want to release a movie. I want to make a movie that escapes. I’ll share more once the writing is done and funding is in place."
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