Jonathan Messinger

Jonathan Messinger is a writer and editor, born in Boston, Massachusetts and living in Chicago, Illinois, USA.cite journal | last = Folse | first = Molly | date = September 6, 2007 | title = Getting into Hiding Out: The storied world of Jonathan Messinger | journal = Birmingham Weekly | volume = 11 | issue = 2 | url = http://www.bhamweekly.com/archive_article.php?article_id=439&issue_id=73&vol=11 | accessdate = 2008-06-03 ]

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,cite journal | last = Ostdick | first = Nick | year = 2008 | date = January 13, 2008 | title = A Review of Messinger's Hiding Out (2007) | journal = decomP | issue = February 2008 | url = http://decompmagazine.com/areviewofmessingershidingout.htm | accessdate = 2008-06-03 ] 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.cite news | date = October 9, 2007 | title = Urban Eye | work = The New York Times | url = http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/10/09/urbaneye/index.html | accessdate = 2008-06-02 ]

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.cite news | last = Breyne | first = Tiffany | title = Featherproof offers light and 'enchanting' reads | work = Columbia Chronicle | url = http://www.columbiachronicle.com/paper/arts.php?id=1742 | accessdate = 2008-06-02 ] Reviews tended to be positive, but while some reviewers, (such as Mark Eleveld in Booklist,cite journal | last = Eleveld | first = Mark | year = 2007 | title = Hiding Out | journal = Booklist | volume = 104 | issue = 2 | pages = p. 33 ] Donna Seaman in Chicago Tribunecite news | last = Seaman | first = Donna | date = October 27, 2007 | title = In plain view - Simple but powerful stories of well-intentioned, inept guys looking for love | work = Chicago Tribune ] and Kevin Sampsell in The Portland Mercurycite news | last = Sampsell | first = Kevin | date = December 20, 2007 | title = Hiding Out | work = The Portland Mercury | url = http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=496458&category=22148 | accessdate = 2008-06-02 ] ), spoke very positively of the work, others, (such as Rob Funderburk in Publishers Weeklycite journal | last = Funderburk | first = Rob | year = 2007 | title = Hiding Out | journal = Publishers Weekly | volume = 254 | issue = 32 | pages = p. 45 ] ), were less impressed.

Novels

* "Hiding Out" - Featherproof books 2007

External links

* [http://everydayyeah.com/content/interview-mr-messinger/ an interview (everydayyeah.com)]
* [http://www.featherproof.com/Mambo/ Featherproof books]

References