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

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Big Publishing, Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (Part 2)

Big publishing is on the way out. Or at least I hope so. Something I see in English language teaching all the time… It’s one of the mighty,

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The Running of the Bulls in Pamplona and elsewehere

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 The Sun

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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

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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

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My new book!

Well, finally. This is the biggest, longest, thickest piece of work I’ve ever published. It took me about 10 months to finish… Half of that time, to be

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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

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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

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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

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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

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