Jonathan Ames

Stewart stars in the new Starz series, "Blunt Talk." He and show creator Ames talk about the project.

We've gone a little Christmas crazy.

Kurt Andersen and the writer Jonathan Ames head outdoors to Central Park to talk about what we want and what we create during summer.

Ames is the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and What's Not to Love? The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer. His latest book, ...

New York in summer: Noisy

The Next Big Thing is a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden with Times sports writer Ira Berkow and asking: What's the big deal? It's a search for Bertie and his gentleman's gentleman. We've also got yoga improv and (ka-ching!) the winner of Five Sounds in Search of an Author. ...

Favorite pieces during Winter funder-raiser

What election? We're already on to the next big contest: Jonathan Ames faces his great aunt Doris in a game of gin rummy. Also, we have writer Ursula LeGuin with dispatches from Ether, OR, a place she invented. And host Dean Olsher asks the important question: Would you like to ...

Reporter Alice Furlaud drums up support for her campaign to replace presidential debates with a time-honored method for solving disputes among political rivals: the duel. Jonathan Ames revisits slightly demented scenes from childhood. And Cecil the Singing Dog performs his greatest hits.

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