Well folks, I have a new article on Vaya Madrid these days. It’s about Cercedilla, a lovely town up north in the mountains. The title is Escape the
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Best books about Spain and Madrid – get your read on!
Looking for the best books about Spain? Here are some of my favorites… This was inspired an article that caught my interest today. It was a list of
Big Publishing, Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (Part 2)
Big publishing is on the way out. Or at least I hope so. Here’s something I see in English language teaching all the time… It’s one of the
The Running of the Bulls (in Pamplona and elsewhere)
This week Pamplona (a city in the northern region of Navarra) celebrates the festival of San Fermín – the famous running of the bulls that Hemingway immortalized in
Bill Bryson Goes to the real America… my America
Living abroad, I come into contact with people from basically everywhere in the world. “Foreigners.” People from Inner Mongolia, Uzbekistan, or the edge of Siberia, people from villages
Bird by Bird book review – Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Time for a book review. Let’s talk about Bird by Bird, one of those famous books about writing that “everyone” needs to read. Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird
Self-publishing FTW! Big publishing, kiss your ass goodbye…
In case you haven’t heard, publishing as we know it is over. Welcome to the era of self-publishing, where anything goes. Do you have a good idea? Then
6 Claves Para Aprender Inglés – my most successful book ever
A lot of people come to my various websites trying to find “pirate” copies of my books. I know from Google Analytics what keywords people use to get
Heart of Darkness
I reread Conrad’s Heart of Darkness over Christmas. It’s one of those books you have to read when you’re at university studying literature. Or maybe I read it
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
You’ve got to hand it to a guy who writes a social novel these days, especially one that’s almost 600 pages long and sprawls across four decades. Jonathan
