by Jamie Chavez | Dec 28, 2015 | Books You Might Like
I’ve said it before: I like this guy Austin Kleon, not least because he’s interested in the creative process, as I am. (Click on creativity in my tag cloud, you’ll see.) But also because he’s a reader. When I read Kleon’s post “33 thoughts on reading” about a year...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 24, 2015 | Miscellany
Choosing books for a library like mine in New York is a full-time job. The head of acquisitions at the Society Library, Steven McGuirl, reads Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the London...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 22, 2015 | The Book Biz
Last night I went to a book signing at Parnassus Books in Nashville. I had a really good time, which I often do at these things. And for a variety of reasons (which I’ll no doubt blog about later), I came home and checked in at the Parnassus website, where I stumbled...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 20, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers
The childhoods of writers are thought to have something to do with their vocation, but when you look at these childhoods they are in fact very different. What they often contain, however, are books and solitude; and my own childhood was right on track. There were no...
by Jamie Chavez | May 28, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
If reading books is to survive as a leisure activity—and there are statistics which show that this is by no means assured—then we have to promote the joys of reading rather than the (dubious) benefits. I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But...
