Author and professor Jonathan Liebson joins Quilltips for this episode of the 3 Questions For Authors podcast to discuss his new book, Hello (and goodbye) To All That!

Jonathan was born in New York and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. He earned a BA in French Literature and International Politics from Wesleyan University, an MA in Modern Literature from the University of Kent (UK), and an MFA in Fiction from NYU.

His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The American Scholar, Tablet Magazine, Time Out New York, The Texas Observer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Meridian, and The Georgia Review, among many other journals, and in the anthology Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (Random House). Jonathan currently lives in New York and teaches writing, literature, and culture at Eugene Lang College of The New School. He has lived in Paris, France; Socorro, New Mexico; Canterbury, England; Charleston, South Carolina; and Oxford, Ohio; and has taught at the College of Charleston, Miami of Ohio, NYU, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. His photography has been shown at the Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York City and the New York Center for Photographic Arts, and was featured in his 9/11 memorial essay in The American Scholar.

Find out more at jonathanliebson.com.

“Liebson’s book reflects a profound wisdom about people, contemporary culture, and the cities and world we live in.”

–AndrÉ Aciman, Author of Call Me by Your Name and Out of Egypt

“One of the great New York memoirs, updated for our day. A treasure to be read and re-read.”

–Mark Greif, Author of Against Everything: Essays

“A unique, funny, and brutally honest perspective on living in New York City.”

–Jonah Hill, Oscar-Nominated Actor and Director