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Jon Methven has worked as a paperboy, a dishwasher, a Ponderosa meat cook (everything medium well), a pizza deliverer, a golf course grounds crewman, a barbecue seasoning filter employee, an illegal barbecue seasoning filter employee since he was living in Australia without a work visa at the time, a bartender, a mascot at Yankee Stadium (Mr. Popcorn), a journalist, a taste tester, and a cubicle dweller. He knows things you can only dream of knowing, or can learn if willing to work for minimum wage. His work has appeared at Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, n+1, The New York Times, and New York magazine, and he currently writes the “Analytically... Read full bio

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This Is Your Captain Speaking will be released on June 05, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jun 05, 2012
This Is Your Captain Speaking is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jun 05, 2012

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The Atlantic Wire, April 11, 2013
...it never experiences posses or beefs or gunplay between constituents, it will always have its Chekov’s Gun. Jon Methven is the author of This Is Your Captain Speaking . He lives in New York City.          ...
Fodors.com, July 24, 2012
...When a flight similar to the "Miracle on the Hudson" crash lands and all 162 passengers survive, it's a Monday morning miracle. What the public does not know, though, is that the whole thing was staged as a last-ditch attempt at resurrecting the...
Huffington Post, June 14, 2012
...This Is Your Captain Speaking , my novel, opens with what appears to be a miracle - a plane crash-lands in the Hudson River, and all 162 people on board survive. The crash, however, is no miracle; it was staged by a failing airline to boost its...
Home News Tribune, June 1, 2012
...transit strike and a race riot. Its a wonder the place survived.THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING by Jon Methven (Simon & Schuster, $16)Its Miracle on the Hudson redux, comedy-style. An Air Wanderlust flight crashes into the river and all 150-plus passenger...
Review Seeker, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...
Tutorial Finder, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...
IT Business Net, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...
92.9 WLMI, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...
1440 WNFL, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...
WDBJ7.com, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...
Yahoo! News, January 4, 2013
...said Richard Farley, a partner at Paul Hastings. So far, though, "No one has bitten." (Editing By Jon Methven...