by Jamie Chavez | Feb 25, 2013 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
My mother was a reader, and she loved the novels of William Faulkner. When I got to an age (around eleven) that I was choosing to read classic fiction, she suggested I try Faulkner. Start with As I Lay Dying, she said. She wasn’t the sort who’d tell you the whole...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 2, 2012 | Books You Might Like
Back in 2006 I wrote a book review of A Family Daughter for BookPage. I seriously fell in love with it. So much so that I turned around and read Meloy’s Liars and Saints immediately upon finishing. It’s been five years so I figure I can let you read the review here....
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 10, 2011 | Authors & Other Writers, The Writing Craft
My friend Beth, as I’ve noted before, is an accomplished writer, having been working her way through the MFA writing program at Butler University. I’ve gotten to see many “assignments” (that is, works-in-progress—WIPs—to some of you), including the list assignment...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 3, 2011 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
I get asked all the time to recommend someone’s next read, probably because I’m so opinionated about books (no, really?) and because anyone who sets foot in the house can see that I’m quite fond of them. (In the old house I’d run out of shelf space and had resorted to...
