by Jamie Chavez | Aug 30, 2012 | The Arts & Media
I quit watching television back in the days when using a piece of popular music (a Rolling Stones song, say) in a commercial was controversial. Back then a lot of artists believed it was selling out. Yet others considered it good exposure, and I know now it’s an...
by Jamie Chavez | May 28, 2012 | Miscellany
This post by my friend Billie Brownell* is running simultaneously on the Cool Springs Press website. Six Degrees of Separation There is a wonderful play (and, later, a movie of the same title) written by John Guare called Six Degrees of Separation. It was deservedly...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 26, 2012 | The Writing Craft
The recent passing of the esteemed Tennessean author William Gay has me thinking about good fiction. What I would call, probably, literary fiction but which moniker my friend April Line notes, has been “so rogered up by public perception” that we should probably...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 3, 2012 | Books You Might Like
I’ve been aware of the Downton Abbey series on television (my friends love it), although, as you know, I am not a television watcher. But it seems the story has revived interest in the World War I era, and this week (its March 2nd issue) Entertainment Weekly ran an...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 23, 2012 | Books You Might Like, The Arts & Media
I had to laugh when the Irishman sent me this article the other day. It seems that moviegoers (in England, anyway) are going to see the French movie The Artist and are shocked to discover it’s an homage to 1920s Hollywood. Which is to say … it’s a silent movie....
