Summer Workshop at CFA

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Jonathan

Dear Friends, I will be teaching a 4-day intensive short story crime fiction workshop July 13-16 at the Center For Fiction. My intention is to bring students from story inception all the way to a polished ready-for-submission piece of work. If you know anyone who Read more…

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Saul Bellow Centennial Celebration

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Jonathan

A great night of Bellow readings to a SRO crowd at Housing Works NYC. Beena Kamlani, Saul Bellow’s last editor, who put the event together, introduced the evening with a few personal stories about working with the author later in his life. The poet and literary Read more…

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The Line-Up: Hollywood Murder

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Jonathan

Hey folks. A piece I wrote re-imagining the Lana Turner / Johnnny Stampanato murder case, in the voices of the participants, is on The Lineup today. I did a few sketches to accompany it as well. Please have a look. I hope you enjoy it. Read more…

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Dark City Lights and Mysterious Book Shop

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Jonathan

I have a new story in this terrific collection put together by the one and only Lawrence Block. Larry said, “Just write a New York story, Jonathan,” and that’s what I did. It may be a surprise because everyone else’s story is a mystery and Read more…

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2Young2Die

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Jonathan

  I just saw Philip Seymour Hoffman’s posthumous last film, “A Most Wanted Man.” And maybe it’s too easy to say in retrospect but it was like watching a man on a suicide mission, chain-smoking, wheezing, overweight, rarely making eye contact with the camera as if Read more…

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Catching Up & Going Ape

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Jonathan

Dear friends, It’s been a long time since I have written anything on my website and I apologize. It was a necessary break for personal reasons. But I have been working and will tell you just a few of things I’ve been up to. For Read more…

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Podcast with Crime City Central

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jonathan

Crime City Central has produced a podcast of my short story “The Muse.” All I will say about the story is that an editor friend sent me a New York Post article with the headline, ARTIST SLEEPS BESIDE MURDERED LOVER, which I had tacked to Read more…

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The Endclave Reading Series – Nov. 16 – Cake Shop

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Jonathan

UPDATE: Thanks to all who came out for the Enclave Reading Series!  A good time was had by one and all in the deep dark recesses of Cake Shop and the authors’ minds!   I will be reading at the Enclave Reading Series on the Read more…

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CT News – Friday Reads – Inherit the Dead Interview

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Jonathan

From the CT News Blog by Joe Meyer: The new Touchstone book “Inherit the Dead” isn’t the first book written by a group of popular writers — it’s a tradition that goes all the way back to the Newsday-created “Naked Came the Stranger” in 1969 Read more…

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NY Press – Twenty Writers’ Worth of Crime in New York City

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Jonathan

Thanks to NY Press for this great interview about Inherit the Dead. “It is said that the generosity of crime fiction writers exists because the authors get their frustrations out on their twisted pages. There is no better tribute to their kindness than when they Read more…

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