by Jamie Chavez | Aug 25, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
I was exposed to the gender politics of reading when I first entered publishing; I worked in the kids’ division. “Girls will read stories about girls or boys,” my boss said. “Boys won’t read stories about girls.” Full stop. It’s a publishing truism. Oh. That’s...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 28, 2014 | Miscellany
In one week, two articles about the teaching of “English”—the word we speakers of English give, rather incorrectly, to both the reading of literature and the written construction of it—cross my path, so it must be a sign, right? The first was this article by Nick...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 12, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I’ve been reading nonfiction all year and one of my favorites so far is Phyllis Rose’s The Shelf from LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading.* (And by the way, here is a delightful review of the book from the New Yorker. If you’d like a shorter review, here’s the...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 10, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Arts & Media
It’s still summer—hot enough for y’all?—and I’m still working on some fantastic new blog posts. In the meantime, I want to revisit my archives and bring some new information to your attention. Let’s get started, shall we? ✱ Digital reading This is a topic that’s going...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 7, 2014 | The Book Biz
A while back one of my readers* wondered how I felt about book titles. Specifically—ahem—pretentious book titles. It struck me as an interesting idea. I mean, how have we gone from Pride and Prejudice and Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Daniel Martin—nice,...
