by Jamie Chavez | Nov 21, 2015 | Miscellany, The Arts & Media
I’ve written about the relative virtues of paper books and e-readers, and have worked out how each works best for me. But I’m still interested in the research. In this article from the Financial Times, writer Julian Baggini asks, “Which do our brains prefer? Research...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 19, 2015 | The Arts & Media
Earlier this summer I was sitting on the deck in the growing dusk after supper listening to the Boy talk with his cousins (my niece and her husband, let’s call them Suze and Sam) about social media. Suze is hovering around age forty; she recently left academia—where...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 17, 2015 | The Arts & Media, The Book Biz
If you’re an author, you’ve probably been asked to provide your publisher’s marketing folks with a list of keywords for your latest novel. If you’re me, you’ve been given that “product packet” and asked to provide yet more keywords, preferably better ones, when you’re...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 12, 2015 | The Arts & Media, The Book Biz
As you probably know, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with electronic reading. I always swore I wouldn’t do it—until I did. Still, as time went on, I learned what I preferred to e-read, what I did not. I also learned there are differences in the way we...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 22, 2015 | The Arts & Media, The Writing Craft
I read recently that John Harrington, in his book Film And/Is Art, estimated that a third of all movies ever made have been adapted from novels; another writer claims that 51 percent of the top 2,000 films of the last 20 years were adaptations (from novels, short...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 29, 2015 | Creativity, The Arts & Media
Several months ago I was listening to this NPR interview with Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, married singer-songwriters who form the core of the folk band Over the Rhine, and I was caught by what Karin says about inspiration: Whenever I get to this spot where...
