by Jamie Chavez | Mar 12, 2018 | Words & Language
The day the Irishman was born, his mother watched the St. Patrick’s Day parade from her room in the Rotunda Hospital overlooking O’Connell Street and the Parnell monument. I’d love to be in Dublin for this parade, although they say some of the best St. Patrick’s Day...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 5, 2015 | Books You Might Like
Since we’ve just been talking about the perfect gift—a book, of course—I figured it was time to rerun my lists of lists for book lovers. I ran this post last year but I’ve got a few more ideas to add to it: For Kids It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 19, 2015 | The Arts & Media
Earlier this summer I was sitting on the deck in the growing dusk after supper listening to the Boy talk with his cousins (my niece and her husband, let’s call them Suze and Sam) about social media. Suze is hovering around age forty; she recently left academia—where...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 20, 2015 | Books You Might Like, The Book Biz
In case you missed it, we’ve had a gin-yoo-wine publishing event last week: the release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman on 14 July. (That date will become important as you read on.) I’ll be frank: although her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, won a Pulitzer Prize,...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 4, 2015 | The Book Biz
Since the beginning of this year, publishing thought leader Jane Friedman has offered an interview series called 5 On. Each discussion is conducted by author Chris Jane, who “asks established, traditionally published authors and experienced self-published authors five...