by Jamie Chavez | Feb 10, 2014 | The Writing Craft
We’ve talked about those ripped-from-today’s-headlines stories as a source of ideas for fiction: teen bullying and suicide, drug addiction, drug legalization … These are all topics in the news right now, and might well provide a theme upon which to build a compelling...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 3, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I’ve been publishing a recap, every January, of every book mentioned in posts during the past year. (Except—whoops—I missed January this year. But maybe you did too? Man, that month went by fast!) Mind you, this is not a list of books I read last year (although there...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 9, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I read thirty-three* books for pleasure in 2012—and at the end of the year I boiled it all down to One Favorite Book, difficult though that was. I read fifty-four in 2013, and most of them were titles I’d happily recommend, for one reason or another. I blogged about...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 31, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
But wait—there’s more. By page 46, we’re in 1844 Ireland, and that’s where most of the story happens. Or, I should say, the second story. (Here’s the first one.) Because really, this is two completely different stories mashed together in the hopes they would somehow...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 22, 2013 | Authors & Other Writers, Miscellany, The Arts & Media
Bloomsday—a commemoration of the events in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, which is set on 16 June 1904—was last Sunday. It is the only international holiday to celebrate a specific work of art. The novel follows protagonist Leopold Bloom’s excursions and encounters...
