by Jamie Chavez | Feb 4, 2018 | Books You Might Like
The last couple years have been … eventful. Eventful, adjective: 1) full of or rich in events; 2) momentous. He led a short but eventful life. It was an extremely eventful period in American history. I didn’t make that last example up, y’all; Merriam-Webster said a...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 29, 2018 | Books You Might Like
My life is moving by at the speed of page-turns … Kate Atkinson / A God in Ruins / LF Rhys Bowen / Her Royal Spyness / GF James Lee Burke / The Glass Rainbow / GF Thomas Cahill / Heretics and Heroes / NF Beverly Cleary / Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / YF Ta-Nehisi Coates / We...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 12, 2017 | Words & Language
I love slang as much as the next person. As a frame of reference, slang instantly conveys humor, sarcasm, or solidarity. Just think about the meaning occupy has taken on recently, and the myriad ways it’s been applied. Pop culture (that is, the world we live in) is a...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 8, 2017 | Books You Might Like
And though the deal was a windfall for [the company] and again made Anders a darling, it also gave him a belly of stress weight and a susceptibility to relentless bloody noses. He made a habit of riding home in the bar car and mauling a can of beer nuts and then...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 29, 2017 | Books You Might Like
Two weeks after that conversation Stoner received a memo from Lomax’s office which informed him that his schedule for the next semester was changed, that he would teach his old graduate seminar on the Latin Tradition and Renaissance Literature, a senior and graduate...
