Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... a new/old poetic form, the Englynion For our American friends, here’s a Thanksgiving journal by Jonathan Ames Stacey-May Fowles interviews Michael Turner about his latest book, 8 X 10 , on The Walrus
The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... hour provided by Harpoon Brewery, will be hosted by scribe of HBO’s Bored to Death, novelist Jonathan Ames, with stories by NPR’s Starlee Kine and TV on the Radio and Rain Machine’s Kyp Malone. He’s gonna tell the story of when he met the dude with a gianter beard/hair combo than him. Just kidding that story doesn’t exist! Purchase tickets .
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
When Vulture attended the Bored To Death panel discussion at the Paley Center a few weeks back, show creator (and "drowned ghostly ship's captain" resembling) Jonathan Ames played it coy when an audience member asked him about the role marijuana plays in the show's creative-development process. As he put it, "I think it can be a lovely drug, from my memory of it."...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Bored to Death's Jonathan Ames - the show's creator, writer and all around bossman, as opposed to lead character, also called Jonathan Ames - has been a prolific creator across many media. Not only is there the show there are comic books, essays, novels, stage shows, memoirs. What we're most concerned with here though, I suppose, are his works for cinema. Currently in post...
/Film (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Bored to Death's Jonathan Ames - the show's creator, writer and all around bossman, as opposed to lead character, also called Jonathan Ames - has been a prolific creator across many media. Not only is there the show there are comic books, essays, novels, stage shows, memoirs. What we're most concerned with here though, I suppose, are his works for cinema. Currently in post...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Author Jonathan Ames has written in almost every format under the sun from novels to stage plays and memoirs to comics, but recently he made the jump to writing for TV and cinema. Not only is he the creator of the HBO series "Bored to Death" (starring Jason Schwartzman), but an adaptation of one of his novels, The Extra Man, starring John C. Reilly and Paul Dano is already in...
happyrobot (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
I haven't had any strangers over to watch it, but hosted a party for fans of the show Friday night at a local bar in Brooklyn, Sample on Smith Street. D'oh! - link: Jonathan Ames, Writer - Gothamist - posted: rich - 11/16/2009 9:19:51 AM - perma-link
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The last two decades have found comic writer Jonathan Ames, known for his slanted wit and brutal honesty, become a veritable chameleon of pop-culture mediums. By turns novelist, essayist, journalist, theatrical performer, and amateur boxer, the Ames style has remained unmistakable—as the Times put it, Ames "has rarely strayed far from himself." His latest...
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Jonathan Ames, the writer who is the creator of HBO’s Bored to Death and the real person Jason Schwartzman’s character is the projection of, wrote a novel about an alcoholic writer who hires PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves as his valet. Odd thing is no one but the writer ever sees Jeeves. The novel’s called Wake Up, Sir! There’s not much of a plot. The writer lurches...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
There are only a few careers that can be launched over a campfire in a New Hampshire artist colony. Luckily for Jonathan Ames, storytelling is among them. Though--as the author, storyteller and creator of “Bored to Death” discussed in his Big Think interview--finding inspiration in the New England woods is not nearly as unlikely as the muse for his early novels: evenings...
LAist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ted Danson, Jonathan Ames, and Jason Schwartzman from HBO's "Bored to Death" from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo. The season finale of HBO's "Bored to Death" is this Sunday at 9:30pm and it is a must-watch. There are plenty of McShows out there but this is not one of them and nor will it ever be. The brainchild of author and memoirist Jonathan Ames, the...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant... (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Cityfile ] Cowgirl : Over BBQ, drag king Murray Hill celebrated his birthday with T.R. Knight and Jonathan Ames. [ Page Six/NYP ] Da Silvano : Anna Wintour, who seems to frequent this West Village Italian spot, dined with designer Isaac Mizrahi. [ Page Six/NYP ] David Burke Townhouse : Tyra Banks drank a virgin Bloody Mary at Sunday brunch. [ NYDN ] Emporio : Seemingly on-again exes...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays (Abrams Image; 208 pages; $15.95). An anthology to counter all that good cheer. With essays, stories and poems by the likes of Jonathan Ames, Roy Blount Jr. and Mr. Sunshine himself: Charles Bukowski. The...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
That’s a question the Village Voice recently asked Brooklyn resident and author Jonathan Ames in an interview. He responded: Almost nothing. Some cheese in a plastic Tupperware thing and some olives. An old coffee I must have planned to reheat. A jar of jam and a jar of relish given to me as presents. Two old bottles of Perrier. One old kombucha. One old bottle of cod-liver oil....
