Writer Jonathan Ames on Summer

Studio 360

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, My Less Than Secret Life, is a collection of short fiction and essays.

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