by Jamie Chavez | Aug 15, 2013 | Books You Might Like
The beauty of being in a book group (and in my case, a book group focused on food books) is you are exposed to books you’d probably never have noticed. Such is the case with Eddie Huang’s memoir (memoir? he’s thirty-one years old!) as a first-generation American of...
by Jamie Chavez | May 27, 2013 | Guest Posts, The Writing Craft
Here’s a post about two of my favorite subjects—a writer’s voice and a book I truly love—from Natalie Knaub, a young writer I’ve been following. Enjoy! That Voice Thing I’ve decided Patrick Ness is one of the greatest authors on the planet. Not only...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 11, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
I’ve been having an e-mail discussion with a writer who’s still learning. He’s in that still-pretty-confident phase but headed hard and fast into the OMG-this-is-a-lot-harder-than-I-thought phase. A full and frank conversation with an editor will do that to a man....
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 26, 2013 | Authors & Other Writers
I pulled a 1989 Book-of-the-Month/Viking copy of Garrison Keillor’s We Are Still Married off my shelf a few days ago. It’s essays and poems, mostly, and some short stories from Lake Woebegon, the fictional Minnesota town Keillor visits every week in his radio show A...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 17, 2012 | Books You Might Like
Ask me what my favorite book is and the answer will usually be something I’ve read very recently. I can’t help it: I’m an enthusiastic reader. When I was eight my favorite book was Ring of Bright Water (Gavin Maxwell). By twelve I was all caught up in Dickens: Great...
