by Jamie Chavez | Dec 26, 2013 | Books You Might Like
Back in September I was absolutely intrigued by this article about a gal who spent a year reading one book—not travel writing; literature—from each of the world’s 196 independent countries. At the beginning of the year, I’d thought I myself might have a Year of...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 28, 2013 | Authors & Other Writers, The Writing Craft
We’ve been talking about the urge to write this week so it’s only right to finish that way. I saw this Brain Pickings article about writing technique from Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), a German-Jewish literary critic, philosopher, and essayist, earlier this year and...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 4, 2012 | Words & Language
I have warm memories of sitting in a pub in Malin, on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal. The population of this village is only 122, and I’m pretty sure most of them were there that late afternoon. It was raining outside—blustering, really—but we were all snug...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 1, 2012 | Books You Might Like
My father was a history major in college, and we kids grew up discussing it at the dinner table. It was my first experience with how interpretation and perception shape the events that we (or our children) will one day call history. This is a longish post and I...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 5, 2011 | Books You Might Like, Miscellany
Well, there’s a title for you, eh? I spent some time in Canada in my youth. Specifically on the island of Newfoundland, back in the days when most roads there were unpaved. In fact, when Queen Elizabeth came to visit—yes, my daddy put me on his shoulders so I could...
