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Jonathan Ames

JONATHAN AMES is the author of I Pass Like Night; The Extra Man; What’s Not to Love?; My Less Than Secret Life; Wake Up, Sir!; I Love You More Than You Know; The Alcoholic; and The Double Life Is Twice As Good. He’s the creator of the HBO® Original Series Bored to Death and has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as “The Herring Wonder.” For more information visit www.jonathanames.com.

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Excerpt 1 from The Extra Man
Mar 06, 2013
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Aug 30, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from I Pass Like Night
Aug 30, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Wake Up, Sir!
Aug 30, 2012
The Extra Man is now available in Trade Paperback
Jul 13, 2010
The Extra Man will be released on July 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Jul 13, 2010
Jun 29, 2010
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The EXTRA MAN
Jun 23, 2010
Bored to Death is now available in eAudio
Feb 16, 2010
Bored to Death will be released on February 16, 2010 in eAudio
Feb 16, 2010
Bored to Death will be released on October 06, 2009 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 06, 2009
Bored to Death is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 06, 2009
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Table of Contents from The EXTRA MAN
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The Double Life Is Twice as Good is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Independent, April 5, 2013
...grew into, once she realised that her life, and psyche, was not tortured enough to mine for fiction. "Jonathan Ames was on the [Princeton] course with me and he literally used to walk around in his black trench coat, his hand covering his forehead. I...
New York Magazine, March 1, 2013
...Jonathan Ames recently took New York Magazine on an outing to discuss his new Byliner novella as well as the film adaptation of his canceled HBO show Bored to Death (which...
MCN, February 27, 2013
...allowing the actors freedom to explore. But I would be completely irresponsible to not credit the writing of Jonathan Ames and Reverend Jen Miller, the films of Carl Dreyer and John Cameron Mitchell, David Lynch’s dream-epic Inland Empire, and...
Contactmusic, February 26, 2013
...The Bored to Death creator suffers from Dupuytren's contracture, a painless condition which causes his fingers to curl inwards, and he recently went under the knife to reduce the thick tissue beneath the skin. Ames, who has been left with a long scar...
Guardian.co.uk, February 23, 2013
...character in Money or the TV series Bored to Death, where a real-life novelist from New York called Jonathan Ames created a lead character called Jonathan Ames, who is also a novelist from New York. Or perhaps Nicolson was alluding to James Frey, author...
Monsters and Critics, February 21, 2013
...arriving at the 65th annual Writers Guild East Coast Awards.Picture copyright by Marco Sagliocco / PRPhotos.com. Jonathan Ames arriving at the 65th annual Writers Guild East Coast Awards.Picture copyright by Marco Sagliocco / PRPhotos.com. Liz...
Carroll Gardens Patch, February 21, 2013
...From Paul Auster to Pete Hamill, Jhumpa Lahiri to Jonathan Safran Foer, Martin Amis and Jonathan Ames, Brooklyn has a long, fine tradition of cultivating writers. If you happen to count yourself among them, why not test your storytelling mettle against...
The Global Legal Post, January 18, 2013
...with a crystal ball A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough...
The Global Legal Post, January 18, 2013
...with a crystal ball A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough...
The Global Legal Post, January 18, 2013
...with a crystal ball A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough...
Blogcritics.org, January 18, 2013
...to keep you adrift in this lonely, lonely world satiated with adroitly weird characters? Well, if you're Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzman), you embrace the relationships you have with your odd fellows and try your hand at being a novice private...
The Global Legal Post, January 17, 2013
...with a crystal ball A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough...
The Global Legal Post, January 17, 2013
...with a crystal ball A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough...
The Global Legal Post, January 16, 2013
...with a crystal ball A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough...