by Jamie Chavez | May 2, 2015 | The Book Biz
Yes, those are scare quotes. I was reading this review of the two Steve Jobs biographies (the one Walter Isaacson published in 2011 and a new one called Becoming Steve Jobs) and was about to dash off a letter to the editor, noting that a book that uses the phrase...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 24, 2013 | Books You Might Like
This is a question I ask often. I ask my friends, I ask people I’ve just met, I ask my authors: What are you reading? No judgment, I’m just curious: What are you reading? I like talking about books. So I was delighted when I stumbled upon Bill Gates’s personal...
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 | Dec 8, 2011 | Books You Might Like
I intended to run this post right after this one about the possibility that we’ll see less published nonfiction in the coming years. But something must have come up, and it got set aside. So just in case you need more ideas for Christmas—and I am, after all, the gal...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 21, 2011 | The Book Biz
Bill O’Reilly’s been in the news lately, and not the way you think. He (and a cowriter, Martin Dugard) recently published a book about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and it has been trashed, in the words of one reporter, by at least two Lincoln experts. Not for...
