by Jamie Chavez | Jan 16, 2016 | Miscellany
You’ve heard me say this before: I grew up in a home filled with books and magazines, music and musical instruments. I have known from my youth that exposure to this made a huge difference in my intellectual life. (That I cared about having an intellectual life at all...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 4, 2016 | Miscellany
You may have noticed I’ve been offering less original writing these last six months. On Thursdays you’ve been getting extracts, gleaned from my own reading on the writing craft. I transcribe them myself. This was spurred by my very busy year (personally and...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 31, 2015 | Books You Might Like
Kate Atkinson / Behind the Scenes at the Museum / LF Kate Atkinson / Case Histories / LF Kate Atkinson / One Good Turn / LF Kate Atkinson / Started Early, Took My Dog / LF Kate Atkinson / When Will There Be Good News? / LF Margaret Atwood / Negotiating With the Dead /...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 28, 2015 | Books You Might Like
I’ve said it before: I like this guy Austin Kleon, not least because he’s interested in the creative process, as I am. (Click on creativity in my tag cloud, you’ll see.) But also because he’s a reader. When I read Kleon’s post “33 thoughts on reading” about a year...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 21, 2015 | Miscellany, The Arts & Media
I’ve written about the relative virtues of paper books and e-readers, and have worked out how each works best for me. But I’m still interested in the research. In this article from the Financial Times, writer Julian Baggini asks, “Which do our brains prefer? Research...
