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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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- 10 Books Every Fantasy Author Should Read
- An AbeBooks Office Tour
- The Power of Young Adult Fiction
- The Top 25 American Novelists...of 1929
- 25 Novels to Honor Womens History Month
- A New Chapter in Rare Book Collecting
- Rare Movie Posters Make $500K at Auction
- The 10 Best LGBT Romances in Literature
- Tick Tock
- What Your Kindle Cover Says About You
- A Nation of Illiterates
- RIP Adrienne Rich
- Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius
- A Slow Books Manifesto
- 10 Best Belfast Books
- Australia's Hidden Stash of Censored Books
- The Birth of a Book
- The Missing Lorax
- Henry Miller Documentary
- The Making of a Blockbuster
- Val Kilmer as Mark Twain?
- Ian McEwan Interviewed
- The Collapsing Baseball Card Industry
- Why Brainstorming Doesn't Matter
- Why Literary Magazines Matter
- Why Kerouac Matters
- The Lost Manuscript of "A Confederacy of Dunces"
- Literary Las Vegas
- High School Students Reading at 5th Grade Level
- What are the Top Literary Fistfights?
- Book Series That Defined Generations
- Titanic Ticket at Auction
- How Popular Words Originate
- Avant Garde Books from Behind the Iron Curtain
- Holland's Most Sacred Bookstore
- Part Book Reading, Part Electro-Dance Party?
- 30 Graphic Novels for Earth Day
- 10 Marijuana Loving Authors
- Books That Smell Like Farts
- An Unpublished Vonnegut Novella Going to Press?
- The History of the English Language in 10 Minutes
- 10 Novels Lost, Then Found
- 1984 to the Big Screen?
- How Fast Do You Read Compared to the National Aver...
- You Know What's Good for Your Brain?
- Hemingway Inc.
- Marvel Comics' 3D App
- The Definitive Mad Men Reading List
- B#tches in Bookshops
- I Was a Cookbook Ghost Writer
- Teen Starts Youth Library On Her Own
- 5 Best Novels about Brothers
- The Beat Hotel
- Words Are Dying. Why?
- Innocent and Abroad: Mark Twain and the Art of Tra...
- Dystopian Futures and Teenage Readers
- 8 Drinking Benders and Hangovers in Literature
- The Shapes of Stories
- Another 100,000 Galleys
- Bemelmans Books That AREN'T Madeline
- Mad Men's Book Spawn
- How Should Shakespeare Really Sound?
- Failed Book to Film Franchises
- Ernest Hemingway's Favorite Books
- Happy St. Patrick's Day - 10 Must-Read Books about...
- Tournament of Novels
- Tournament of Villains
- 7 Great Addiction Memoirs about Hitting Rock Bottom
- Christopher Walken Reads "Where the Wild Things Are"
- 10 Graphic Novels for the Literary Minded
- 6 Writing Tips from John Steinbeck
- The Urban Library - Under Pressure and In Demand
- Songs about Books
- Top 12 Author Beards
- Oprah's Book Selections HURT Sales?
- Kerouac Play to Finally Receive Its World Premiere?
- No More Encyclopedia Britannica in Print?
- The Dude Abides
- Playing Charley in "Death of a Saleman"
- A Literary Tour of Paris
- The Joy of Teaching Children to Write
- Famous Writers' Stationary
- The Beautiful Afterlife of Dead Books
- Inside Portlandia
- An Old School Book Scout
- On the Road
- Chimping - a Documentary about Photojournalism
- John Carter, and 11 More Edgar Rice Burroughs Movi...
- Nic Cage's True Life Story of His Lost Superman Co...
- The 10 Greatest Unfinished Novels
- Be Illuminated
- The Secret Lives of Bookmarks
- A Field Guide to Field Guides
- World's Oldest Charles Dickens Movie Discovered
- Wonder Women!
- Audible Books Using Big Stars
- 10 Best Movies Adapted from Memoirs
- What Makes a Good Essayist?
- The Hunger Games and the Book of Esther
- Where Would You Be Without Your Library?
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