All posts by Jonathan Ames

July 13th, 2009

The Two Virgins

parisaftertherainThe summer of 1983 I was nineteen-years old.  I was very muscular and very blonde and had nice features.  Girls liked me.  I was lousy in bed but that wasn’t important back then. …more

May 11th, 2009

No Contact, Asshole!

cigarette-sketch1The summer of 1990 was a bad one.  It should have been a good one but it was a bad one.  I’ve pulled a lot of stunts in my day, mostly of the sick sexual variety, but that summer I reached a new low.  Or a new high.  It was so low it was high, if you know what I mean. …more

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Jonathan Ames is the author of the books 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, and The Alcoholic (a graphic novel illustrated by Dean Haspiel). He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. His next book, a collection of fiction and non-fiction, The Double Life is Twice As Good, will be published by Scribner in July 2009.

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