Jonathan Raymond is an American

United States

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 writer living in Portland

Portland, Oregon

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, Oregon

Oregon

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Biography

He published his first novel, The Half-Life in May of 2004. He has also worked as a screenwriter and wrote the short story inspired by the photography of Justine Kurland

Justine Kurland

Justine Kurland is a fine art photographer based in New York.-Education:Kurland earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to Yale University where she studied with Gregory Crewdson and Philip-Lorca diCorcia and graduated with an M.F.A...

 on which the film Old Joy is based. Old Joy was shown at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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 and the 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival and stars musician Will Oldham

Will Oldham

Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...

. Raymond also co-wrote the 2008

2008 in film

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 film Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy is a 2008 American drama film directed by Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt and Jon Raymond adapted the screenplay from his short story "Train Choir". The film stars Michelle Williams and Will Patton...

starring Michelle Williams. Both Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy are based on short stories published in Raymond's 2008 collection, Livability, which won the Oregon Book Award

Oregon Book Award

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's Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a...

 Award for Fiction in 2009.

Raymond's professional duties include co-editing Tin House

Tin House

Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance...

, editing Plazm

Plazm (magazine)

Plazm magazine has been published since 1991 by a collective of designers, writers, and others in Portland, Oregon, United States. The complete catalog of Plazm magazine is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum...

, art criticism for Artforum

Artforum

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and Modern Painters

Modern Painters (magazine)

Modern Painters is a monthly art magazine published in New York City by Louise Blouin Media. The magazine is published 10 times per year; it includes profiles on two international artists per issue; columns by international contributors; interviews with and articles by contemporary artists and...

, and teaching through The New School

The New School

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Books

• The Half-Life: A Novel (2004), ISBN 978-1582345789 (2005 paperback)
• Old Joy (2004), with Justine Kurland
  Justine Kurland
  Justine Kurland is a fine art photographer based in New York.-Education:Kurland earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to Yale University where she studied with Gregory Crewdson and Philip-Lorca diCorcia and graduated with an M.F.A...
  
  , ISBN 978-1891273056
• Livability: Stories (2008), ISBN 978-1596916555

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