by Jamie Chavez | Apr 17, 2014 | Books You Might Like
If you’ve been around here long, you know I tend to resist reading best sellers. Sure I’ve read some (like this one), but generally speaking, unless I’ve found it before its 277th week on the NYT Best Sellers list—well before—I probably won’t. Cheryl Strayed’s Wild:...
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 | Nov 28, 2013 | Miscellany
… And then I think of Blake, in the dirt and sweat of London— a boy staring through the windows, when God came fluttering up. Of course, he screamed, seeing the bobbin of God’s blue body leaning on the sill, and the thousand-faceted eyes. Well, who knows. Who knows...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 28, 2013 | Authors & Other Writers, The Writing Craft
We’ve been talking about the urge to write this week so it’s only right to finish that way. I saw this Brain Pickings article about writing technique from Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), a German-Jewish literary critic, philosopher, and essayist, earlier this year and...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 27, 2013 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
Periodically I get these emails in which, at some point, the correspondent says a) he is really confident the story and structure are strong, b) lots of folks have read it (and they all loved it), and c) he’s pretty sure the grammar’s in good shape. But just in case,...
