About the Author

Jonathan Ames is the author of two novels, I Pass Like Night and The Extra Man, and a memoir, What's Not to Love? A longtime contributor to New York Press, he has written for McSweeney's, Bookforum, Conjunctions, Elle, Shout, and Gear. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and he lives in Brooklyn, NY. His one-man show of storytelling "Oedipussy" debuted off-off-Broadway in 1999. He appears regularly as a storyteller on NPR's New York City affiliate, WNYC.