Johnathan Wilber

Johnathan Wilber is the author of novels Out, Beelzebub! (2011) and Dark Continents (forthcoming). He holds a bachelor’s degree in fiction writing from Northwestern University and an MFA from Columbia University. He has received fellowships from Columbia University (2005) and the Lambda's Writers' Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices (2011), as well as a "waitership" from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2014).

You can find his fiction and nonfiction in Hot Metal Bridge, the Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, and the Huffington Post. He worked for several years in publishing before turning to a communications role in the nonprofit sector. He hails from Iowa and lives in New York City.

Books by Johnathan Wilber

Book Reviews by Johnathan Wilber

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Very few of the books published in the United States each year are works in translation.

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Ronald Reagan was just 69 days into his presidency when John Hinckley, Jr., greeted him outside an AFL–CIO conference by firing six shots from a .22 caliber revolver.

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Nothing says exceptionalism like a debut author winning a two-million-dollar advance.

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The Sierra is gone. Colorado is dead. Phoenix has burned. The sky is “bloodred with ash.” Cheese comes in jars and looks like DayGlo; pears are grimy, and blackberries are filled with dust.

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In 1957, a young photographer and quantum physicist from Washington, DC, wrote his PhD dissertation under the title The Theory of Universal Wavefunction.

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Imagine George Orwell got it wrong. Big Brother isn’t a Stasi- or North Korean–style government watching the unremarkable comings-and-goings of the people.