UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
Haven't updated in a while, but there's a lot going on. News on novel and TV fronts coming soon.
UPDATE: MAY 24, 2011
New novel is coming along nicely. Waiting to hear HBO/Cinemax verdict on mine and Schickler's TV pilot. Writing original feature (KODACHROME) for 20th Century Fox.
UPDATE: MARCH 30, 2011
Still pounding away at something that is starting to resemble a novel. Sold a feature pitch to Dreamworks - here is the mostly accurate Deadline Hollywood article. Warners is meeting with directors for TIWILY. Waiting to hear the fate of mine and Schickler's HBO pilot script.
UPDATE: October 2010
Working feverishly on new novel. Turned in HBO pilot with David Schickler (Alan Ball is producing). Turned in rewrite on TIWILY script for Warner Brothers. Book tour in Germany week of Oct. 18. See "Events" page for any local appearances.
7/23/10
BESTSELLER LIST!!!
This Is Where I Leave You paperback has cracked the New York Times Bestseller List for August 1, 2010 at #18!
5/26/10
BOOK TOUR SUMMER 2010!!!!
This Is Where I Leave You comes out in paperback on July 6th 2010. Jonathan will be on book tour in July and August. Click here for tour info.
02/2/10
Jonathan has signed on to adapt Steve Martin's novel, The Pleasure of My Company, as a feature film for 20th Century Fox. Sean Levy will direct.
12/22/09
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU is #3 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the top ten novels of 2009!!!
12/16/09
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU makes the "Best Of 2009" lists on Amazon.com, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, NPR, Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life!
11/13/09
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU is #14 on Amazon's list of the Best 100 Books of 2009!
8/19/09
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU is officially a New York Times Bestseller and an ABA bestseller!
8/6/09
This Is Where I Leave You is released.
TIWILY came out today nationwide, to stellar reviews. Click here to read them.
8/2/09
Steven Spielberg to Direct Harvey!
Steven Speilberg has committed to directing Harvey, Jonathan's first screenplay, written for Fox 2000. The film will be a co-production of 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks. Production is planned for early 2010. Read about it here and here.
This Is Where I Leave You has been voted by Independent booksellers (Indiebound) as an August selection for the Indie Next List!
Jonathan's new novel, This is Where I Leave You, comes out August 6, 2009. The novel has been optioned by Warner Brothers Studios, with Jonathan on board as the screenwriter. For book tour dates, click here.
Jonathan is currently writing a remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey, for Fox 2000.
How To Talk To A Widower has been optioned by Paramount Pictures for the production company of Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn. Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Marley & Me) will write and direct. To read about the project, click here.
Everything Changes is in development at Sony Pictures for Maguire Entertainment. Tobey Maguire and Wendy Finerman (Forest Gump, Devil Wears Prada) will produce, based on a screenplay by Peter Hedges (Dan In Real Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape). Peter Hedges will direct. Click here to read more.
