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jonathan ames

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The Last Book I Loved: I Love You More Than You Know

  • Pilot Viruet
  • November 4, 2010
I moved to New York City in July. I was unemployed, rejected from graduate school, and had $6.29 in my bank account. It seemed logical. I’d spent the last year…
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Literary Fashionables: The Showman and The Muse

  • Caitlin Colford
  • February 18, 2010
Two further reasons to drop your day job and write full time rather than watch all this literary glamor ringside are Jonathan Ames and Sophie Dahl. Unless, of course, you…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/8 – 2/14

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • February 8, 2010
This week in New York, Harper’s presents “Love: A Rebuke” with Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits and Sam Lipsyte, Simon Critchley in bed with Cabinet’s Brian Dillon chatting about hypochondria, Vol.…
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A Notable Night with the Rumpus and Tin House

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • November 20, 2009
Tuesday night, November 17, the Rumpus and Tin House presented a night of variety acts such as David Rees on the art of choosing numbers, Todd Barry on what women…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/16-11/22

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • November 16, 2009
This week in New York the Rumpus and Tin House present MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED with Rick Moody, Starlee Kine and Eugene Mirman followed by a meteor shower, Martin Amis…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/12-10/18

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • October 12, 2009
MONDAY, October 12, 2009 – SUNDAY, October 18, 2009 This week in New York, The New Yorker Festival hits town. And yes, while the “Humor Revue,” “About Towns,” and “Kaffeeklatches”…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

  • Seth Fischer
  • August 2, 2009
It’s been one hell of a week for Rumpus books, complete with a review by D.A. Powell of Rachel Loden’s Dick of the Dead and an interview with Jonathan Ames. Come…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames

  • Joshua Furst
  • July 29, 2009
Maybe my work isn’t a cry for help. It may just be a baby’s need to cry or a dog’s need to bark.
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Jonathan Ames Talks Sex, Frivolity, and Egocentrism

  • Kevin Hobson
  • July 17, 2009
Rumpus contributor Jonathan Ames recently got interviewed by a little magazine called Time. Clearly this upstart Time rag is hopping on the Rumpus’ pro-Ames bandwagon, but we won’t begrudge them.…
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The Two Virgins

  • Jonathan Ames
  • July 13, 2009
The 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…
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The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: The Rumpus Interview with Julian Rubinstein

  • Jessica Anthony
  • July 10, 2009
Ten years ago today, Attila Ambrus (a.k.a. the “Whiskey Robber”), arguably the worst pro-hockey goalie in history, hastily twisted together a makeshift rope out of computer cables and bedsheets and…
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No Contact, Asshole!

  • Jonathan Ames
  • May 11, 2009
The 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,…
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