by Jamie Chavez | Apr 7, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
During a recent visit to the Florida island where our parents live, my brother and I had dinner with them at a fancy restaurant. As we bent our heads over our menus—all of us, that is, except my father, who can’t see—I realized that our identically rapt expressions...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 24, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers
In the eyes of others you have something called a Career. Certain people, should you be lucky enough to have them, like your agent or your editor, will hasten to tell you that what you need now for that career is another novel or another book of the same kind of poems...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 10, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers
I was talking to a reporter the other day and she asked me if I thought my studies in philosophy had affected my writing, shaped the forms I chose to write in. I told her that I didn’t separate knowledge into genres or categories because it seemed to me that all of us...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 1, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers, The Writing Craft
I’d forgotten how much I enjoy Anne Tyler, “winner of the Pulitzer Prize” (in 1989 for Breathing Lessons) as the cover of my hardback copy says, conveniently leaving out a host of other prizes and details, including that her first college prof, Reynolds Price, once...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 30, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers
You know about eating right, getting plenty of sleep, getting up from the desk every once in a while (better yet, get one of those cool standing desks) … but because you are writers, there are other hazards you need to keep your eye on. Author Chuck Wendig should...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 28, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers
Somewhere around the early seventies, I was regaling a hugely motivated friend with some wild story pertaining to my recent life experience. She said, “You know what drives me crazy about you? You dissipate all this talent talking out stories over the kitchen table. I...
