About Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames is the bestselling author of six books, including I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and Wake Up, Sir!, and the essay collections What's Not to Love? and My Less Than Secret Life. He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. A new book of essays, I Love You More Than You Know, will be published in January 2006.


Movable Snipe: Sad News, Showtime, Greenpeace, and My All-Around Nutty Friends

Movable Snipe: Sad News, Showtime, Greenpeace, and My All-Around Nutty Friends
By Jonathan Ames March 15, 2007

To: Amanda Marcotte From: Jonathan Ames Subject: Sad News, Showtime, Greenpeace, and My All-Around Nutty Friends Dear Amanda, In response to your first paragraph, I went to the Jewlicious story, and then I scrolled through The News Blog, and then … Read More

Movable Snipe: Backgammon, “Anna” Coulter, Terabitha, Earth, and Yeats

Movable Snipe: Backgammon, “Anna” Coulter, Terabitha, Earth, and Yeats
By Jonathan Ames March 14, 2007

Dear Amanda, At Jewlicious, there was a lot about a big party, something called the Jewlicious Festival, which happened recently in Long Beach, CA. From what I can gather it was hosted by a Rabbi Yonah Bookstein and his wife … Read More

Movable Snipe: My Lefty Pinky and Bill Donohue’s One-Man League

Movable Snipe: My Lefty Pinky and Bill Donohue’s One-Man League
By Jonathan Ames March 13, 2007

To: Amanda Marcotte From: Jonathan Ames Subject: My Left Pinky and Bill Donohue's One-Man League Dear Amanda, I’m going to try address each of your major paragraph blocks in order. You began with talking about the The News Blog, but … Read More