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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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Bored to Death is now available in eAudio
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The Double Life Is Twice as Good is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Double Life Is Twice as Good will be released on July 14, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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The Double Life Is Twice as Good is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
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Pop Matters, February 9, 2012
...novelist Lucius Shepard, Fitch and a collection of writing about money with pieces by Mona Simpson, Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Ames, Mark Doty, Robert Pinsky and more. The press’ highest-profile writer is Gregory Maguire, the author of “Wicked: The...
Columbus Republic, February 8, 2012
...novelist Lucius Shepard, Fitch and a collection of writing about money with pieces by Mona Simpson, Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Ames, Mark Doty, Robert Pinsky and more. The press’ highest-profile writer is Gregory Maguire, the author of “Wicked: The...
New York Times, February 3, 2012
...For $5 a month, readers of the Web site The Rumpus can receive from writers including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Ames, Aimee Bender and The Rumpus’s editor in chief Stephen Elliott, who came up with the idea. With about 1,800 subscribers already signed up,...
Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2012
...Lucius Shepard, Fitch himself and a collection of writing about money with pieces by Mona Simpson, Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Ames, Mark Doty, Robert Pinsky and more. The press' highest profile writer is Gregory Maguire, the author of "Wicked: The...
Tacoma News Tribune, February 1, 2012
...come will be from writer and editor Dave Eggers, comedian Margaret Cho, graphic novelist Dean Haspiel and author Jonathan Ames, the creator of the television series "Bored to Death." Subscribers pay $5 a month to get three to four of the letters...
Guardian.co.uk, February 1, 2012
...literary names including Eggers himself, Tao Lin, Stephen Elliott, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Elissa Schappel, Emily Gould and Jonathan Ames. "Think of it as the letters you used to get from your creative friends, before this whole internet/email thing,"...
Gold Derby, January 27, 2012
...to host. A number of celebrities and renowned writers will serve as presenters including: 'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames; 'Late Night' host Jimmy Fallon; 'Precious' screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher; '60 Minutes' correspondent Steve Kroft; and 'SNL'...
Philadelphia City Paper, December 16, 2011
...best. Cancer (June 22-July 23): On the most recent season of Bored to Death, the fictional version of Jonathan Ames went on a quest for his biological father and it went horribly awry. Your quest isn’t like that. Whatever you’re looking for, it’ll...
FORA.tv, December 15, 2011
...Flash Post to 0 Likes 0 Dislikes RATE 33 Views Info Bio Chapters Highlights Transcript Download More Bio 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...
New York Times, December 11, 2011
...that theyre two halves of a whole, so who else would they pair with? Anything else is lesser. Jonathan Ames, the creator of Bored to Death and an author whose work often deals in peculiar extremes of sex and sexuality, offered a rare comedic take on...
The Atlantic Wire, December 9, 2011
...day. Other Media Diets: Christiane Amanpour , Andrew Ross Sorkin , Jenny Slate ,  Ed Schultz ,  Jenna Lee ,  Jonathan Ames ,  Bret Baier ,  Al Sharpton ,  Vanessa Grigoriadis ,  Bess Levin ,  Tamron Hall ,  Choire Sicha ,  Ed Henry , ...
The Scotsman, December 8, 2011
...Raymond Chandler without being so arch as to be alienating. Self-medicating with white wine and weed, Schwartzman’s Jonathan Ames – the fictional alter-ego of the show’s creator – may be in a semi-permanent fog, but he’s lucid enough to solve...
Editor & Publisher, December 7, 2011
...Voice, the paper was once a place where emerging big-shots like Dave Eggers, Sam Sifton, Amy Sohn and Jonathan Ames cut their teeth. It was shuttered at the end of August following years of budget cuts and a steady decline in ad pages...
Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2011
..."The Last Romantic Antihero" (Dean Haspiel and Trip City) Dogma is AmGod spelled backward. That’s the kind of thing you pick up while reading the work of Dean Haspiel, the New York artist who finds himself at an interesting career crossroads with...