by Jamie Chavez | Mar 12, 2015 | Books You Might Like
What is it about the Irish? That they are a nation of storytellers seems to be borne out the minute you get in a cab in Dublin (though it probably helps that you have an American accent), but the fact is, whether it’s a pub culture that encourages the art of the story...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 5, 2015 | Miscellany
You know how the winter wind swirls dead leaves around until a dozen of them end up stuck in a corner by the fence? The Internet is like that. Late last year it swirled two big stories and an advice piece together, and they got stuck in my office. 🙂 The subject of...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 9, 2015 | Books You Might Like
Last night (well, back in mid-January when I wrote this it really was last night) I finished Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking. We are a different generation, she and I, and so I was surprised by how strongly I identified with her, how deeply I was touched by who she...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 1, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
I’m still grappling with gender issues in fiction. You’ll have seen I hadn’t even thought about the fact that there was a gender divide until I discovered in a personal way that many men don’t read women authors … perhaps because of a perception that women authors...
by Jamie Chavez | May 12, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I love when I learn something from a novel—and I don’t mean those personal, internal things I’ve mentioned before and that my friend Michelle Ule said even better in her post “What’s the Point of Reading Literature Anyway?” Although those are good things to learn. No,...
