Jonathan Messinger

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Jonathan Messinger is a writer and editor, born in Boston, Massachusetts and living in Chicago, Illinois, USA.[1]

He has contributed his fiction writing to the zine McSweeney's, among many other major and alternative publications. While at Clark University he was the editor of the student magazine The Wheatbread. Messinger was also the editor of THISisGRAND, a web magazine chronicling true stories on Chicago's public transit,[2] and the books editor for Time Out Chicago. He has toured extensively in Canada and the United States, and is the creator and host of The Dollar Store Reading Series, a successful monthly show where he hands out items purchased for a dollar to writers and comedians, who then use the item as inspiration for stories.[3]

Messinger's first published collection of short stories, Hiding Out, was released in 2007 through Featherproof books, an independent publisher which he cofounded in 2005 in combination with fellow writer Zach Dodson.[4] Reviews tended to be positive, but while some reviewers, (such as Mark Eleveld in Booklist,[5] Donna Seaman in Chicago Tribune[6] and Kevin Sampsell in The Portland Mercury[7]), spoke very positively of the work, others, (such as Rob Funderburk in Publishers Weekly[8]), were less impressed.

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  1. ^ Folse, Molly (September 6, 2007). "Getting into Hiding Out: The storied world of Jonathan Messinger". Birmingham Weekly 11 (2). 
  2. ^ Ostdick, Nick (January 13, 2008). "A Review of Messinger's Hiding Out (2007)". decomP (February 2008). 
  3. ^ "Urban Eye", The New York Times, October 9, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-06-02. 
  4. ^ Breyne, Tiffany. "Featherproof offers light and 'enchanting' reads", Columbia Chronicle. Retrieved on 2008-06-02. 
  5. ^ Eleveld, Mark (2007). "Hiding Out". Booklist 104 (2): p. 33. 
  6. ^ Seaman, Donna. "In plain view - Simple but powerful stories of well-intentioned, inept guys looking for love", Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2007. 
  7. ^ Sampsell, Kevin. "Hiding Out", The Portland Mercury, December 20, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-06-02. 
  8. ^ Funderburk, Rob (2007). "Hiding Out". Publishers Weekly 254 (32): p. 45.