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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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- Booktails
- Punctuation Posters?! Indeed!
- The Kurt Cobain Journals
- Twilight: How Did a First-Time Author Make It So Big?
- Are Challenging Books Worth the Effort?
- Jon's Writing on Venuszine
- Drunk Writers Were Better Sober
- Ah, to Have a Half Million Dollars Laying About
- Vendela Vida - An Interview
- Marvel TV
- Don't Mention "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- Abraham Lincoln - Emancipator. President. Poet?
- Pulp Pride
- Ardor and the Abyss
- Are You the Newspaper You Read?
- A Dying Breed: Libraries
- Horrible Poems from Horrible Emails
- What Are the Longest Novels Ever Written?
- Bringing Books Back from the Dead
- Cool Bookends
- What Do You Do With Old Newspapers?
- Collective Nouns Illustrated
- Friday's Poem
- Books' Power to Connect is as Potent as Ever
- Will Murals of Dostoevsky Make People Want to Kill...
- Is English Killing Other Languages?
- Nancy Drew Gets Her Due
- Fiction is Now a Marginal Enterprise...or not
- Top Ten Women Travellers in Literature
- Mark Twain, 1909
- As I Walked Out One Evening
- The Writer Who Couldn't Read
- Lamenting the Loss of Letter Writing
- The Tyranny of the New
- How Did John Grisham Become a Writer?
- Green Hornet: The Movie
- What are the 50 Best Book Cover Designs of 2009?
- Yours, Insincerely
- If I Only Had a Quarter Million Dollars
- The History of the Typewriter
- Atlas Shrugged: The Movie
- The Catcher in the Rye: The Movie
- Somewhere a Dog Barked
- Singer Ben Folds Meets Novelist Nick Hornby
- Variations of R. Crumb
- Happy Father's Day
- What is the Future of Poetry?
- Pioneer Dame of the Donner Party
- Hemingway on the Silver Screen
- Welcome to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Ghost Signs
- R.I.P. Jose Saramago
- Bringing William Wallace Home
- Finding Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
- Reaching for That First-Edition High
- The Return of Katherine Dunn
- Slushpile Hell
- Why is To Kill a Mockingbird So Popular?
- Mayonaisse and Library Books Don't Mix
- Buying Bibles, Lots and Lots of Bibles
- The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time
- Sinking Your Teeth in a Good Book
- Jon's Writing in Idaho Magazine
- Hitler's Mein Kampf - The Global Art Project
- Your Summer Reading List
- What Good Are Authors' Estates?
- Jon's Writing in Sublime Magazine
- The 18 Best Batman Panels Ever
- Walker Evans, Decade by Decade
- The Geekiest Kid Book Ever?
- Friday's Poem
- Machine Gun Sonnets
- Abracadabra...
- Happy National Bathroom Reading Month!
- Jon's Writing on Venuszine
- Fictional Stars, Real Problems
- The Art of the Dust Jacket
- Writers on Writing
- Jon's Writing in Venuszine
- The Golden Age of Science Writing
- Books on Vinyl
- Summer Reading or Movie Watching
- Jon's Writing on Lost Magazine
- Guide to Stunt Writing
- The E-Book Will Replace the Printed Book in 5 Years
- Superhero Panhandlers
- Don't Let the Pigeon Start a Blog
- Jon's Novel on Word Riot
- Question: What Was the 1st Blockbuster Crime Novel?
- Ask the Paris Review
- The Best Bookstores in the World
- The Death and Life of the Book Review
- What the Dickens?
- Understanding the Financial Crisis
- The Picture Book That Killed the Rainforest
- Literature's Greatest Sister Acts
- The Plight of the Gay Bookstores
- Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man
- A Dying Breed - The Typewriter Repair Man
- Friday's Poem
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