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About Me
- Jonathan S.
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- I am a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. I am working on a book about the Lincoln Highway. Follow me: http://thefatherroad.com/
Books Published
Books Published In
- Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World
- Going Mutant: The Bat Boy Exposed
- Home Brew Wind Power
- Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists
- My Funny Major Medical
- My Funny Valentine: America's Most Hilarious Writers Take On Love, Romance, and Other Complications
- The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
Magazines Published In
- Amphora Magazine
- BPM Magazine
- Beer Northwest Magazine
- Canoe and Kayak Magazine
- City Arts
- Coffee House Digest
- Comedians Magazine
- Culture: The Word on Cheese
- Diner Journal
- Discover America Travel Guide
- Distinctly Northwest Magazine
- Epitaphs Magazine
- Fine Books and Collections Magazine
- Forever Green
- Geez Magazine
- Ghettoblaster Magazine
- Halftime Magazine
- Idaho Magazine
- Lexus Magazine
- Meatpaper
- Metro Dot Pop
- Nevada Magazine
- Northwest Travel Magazine
- Parody Poetry Journal
- Presence Magazine
- Put an Egg on It
- Rain Taxi Review of Books
- Remedy Quarterly
- SOMA Magazine
- Seattle Business Magazine
- Seattle Sound Magazine
- Sip Northwest Magazine
- Stage Directions Magazine
- Sublime Magazine
- Swindle Magazine
- Touring & Tasting Magazine
- Twins Magazine
- Uppercase Magazine
- Venuszine
- Welding and Cutting Magazine
Newspapers Published In
Blogs I Contribute To
Websites Published On (Music Writing)
Websites Published In (Humor Writing)
Websites Published In (Misc Writings)
Photography Published In
Magazines, Sites, and Blogs I Read Frequently
- Atlantic
- Bookdwarf
- Bookninja
- Comics Curmudgeon
- Crosscut Seattle
- Curious Expeditions
- Esquire
- Grist
- Guardian Unlimited Books
- Harper's Magazine
- Largehearted Boy
- Magazine Publishers of America
- Media Bistro
- Morning News
- National Book Critics Circle Board
- Neatorama
- New York Times Book Section
- New York Times Magazine
- New Yorker
- Newsmap
- Onion, The
- Slate Magazine
- Smithsonian
- Three Quarks Daily
- USA Today Pop Candy
- Vanity Fair
- Weekly World News
Writers I Read Regularly
Blog Archive
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- Jon's Writing in Vintage Seattle
- The World's Oldest Antiquarian Bookseller
- A Future Beyond the Printed Page
- Quote of the Week
- Books That Changed America
- The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
- An Interview with Rare Book Collector Ken Sanders
- Billy Collins' Action Poetry
- Alice + Pooh + Potter + Cowardly Lion = $
- Fatherhood in Poetry
- What Are the Cheesiest and Most Inappropriate Sci-...
- Serving Up Some Poetry with Your Thanksgiving Pump...
- The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived
- The Remains of Albert Camus
- Writing about Writers
- Dead Caulfields
- The Bible is Ha-Ha Funny
- Since When Did We Start Making Such Great Movies B...
- Who Are the Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes in Sci-F...
- Where, Oh Where, is the Good Sex in Fiction?
- The Books That Changed My Life
- Quote of the Week
- Terrible Poetry Jokes
- Why We Use Cookbooks
- Welcome to Forks, Washington
- Friday's Poem
- Best Books About Books for 2009
- Best Books for Boys and Young Men
- Best Books of 2009
- Klingon as a First Language
- The Very Best in Bad Sex Writing
- A History of Science Fiction Classics...
- Top Twenty Book Covers of the '00s
- One of the Greatest Creations of 19th Century Amer...
- The French Town That Can't Let a Bookstore Die
- The Sporting Life in Books
- In Cold Blood - FIfty Years On
- The Dutch Literary Tradition
- Jon's Writing in Vintage Seattle
- A Feminist Reading List
- The Bible - X-Box Edition
- Quote of the Week
- Gene FOXP2
- Robert Mankoff - The Big Think Interview
- I've Lost My Library Card!
- Friday's Poem
- I Can Tell By the Pixies...
- A Novel Crime Cure
- Why Writers Define the First World War
- The Smell of Books
- The Antiquarian Book Market in Mexico City
- Jonathan Ames - The Big Think Interview
- Photography and the Private Library
- The Donkey Library
- The Great Comic Book Heroes
- William Carlos Williams and His Burnt Book
- Do Women Write "Female" Poetry?
- The Carbon Footprint of Reading
- ASL Shakespeare
- The Gutenberg Bible at Yale University
- How to Kick Writer's Block Musically
- Jane's Predecessor
- Quote of the Week
- John Irving on Big Think
- Rejoice for McSweeney's
- How to Write a Great Novel
- Friday's Poem
- Grammar in Rhyme
- The Book That Changed Your Life
- How Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play
- Chrononhotonthologos: The Most Tragical Tragedy th...
- Dutch Covers
- 100 Essential Reads for the Lifelong Learner
- Four Obstacles to Writing
- Marvel Comics is 70 Years Old
- What to Write Next
- The End of an Era
- A Slideshow Tour of the Bienes Museum of the Moder...
- George Orwell's Bookshop Memories
- Near Priceless Ansel Adams Glass Negatives Found a...
- Living on $500,000 a Year
- 19th Century Dust Jackets
- The Cultured Traveler
- Quote of the Week
- Started Your Novel Yet?
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