by Jamie Chavez | Nov 10, 2011 | Books You Might Like, Words & Language
I read Joseph Heller’s brilliant Catch-22 in my teens. I can’t say for sure, honestly, that I “got” it the first time (I read it several more times in those years when I had the time to read books more than once) but I can say it exploded my notion of what a novel...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 5, 2011 | Miscellany
By now everyone’s learned the award-winning novelist Mona Simpson is also the sister of Steve Jobs. (And that the new Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is number one on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list, although that shouldn’t come as a surprise.) She...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 16, 2011 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
Recently I came across some photographs of my father that I’d never seen before. And I was reminded of what a wonderful dad he was, how much he truly loved us kids and showed it in the time and attention he paid to us. We were so lucky to have him. So I’m always a bit...
