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​writing by Jonathan Lerner


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Jonathan Lerner's magazine work focuses mainly on the built and natural environments. He is a contributing
 editor to Landscape Architecture Magazine, and a writing and communications consultant for for design professionals.

Lerner's 
novels are Caught in a Still Place (1989)
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Alex Underground (2009), and Lily Narcissus (publication forthcoming by Unsolicited Press). Swords in the Hands of Children (2017), ​is his memoir about the radical left of the Sixties and Seventies and the militant Weather Underground, of which he was a founding member.

​ARTICLES
from Landscape Architecture Magazine

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​contact:   jonathanlerner@me.com

​BOOKS


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“Imagine if your favorite uncle, a brutally honest, worldly, self-reflective gay raconteur, had been, as a twenty year-old, a lieutenant in an underground guerrilla army dedicated to the violent overthrow of the government of the United States. Jonathan Lerner is that favorite uncle you never had, telling unbelievable true stories—no bullshit—from the 'revolution' fifty years ago. This is the closest you'll ever get to being there.”
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​reviewed in the
L.A. Review of Books

BUY SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN

​listen: Jonathan Lerner
On Anger and ​Activism​


​​NOVELS
  Alex Underground
  Caught in a Still Place


​ESSAYS

What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution
New York Times, September 12, 2017

Lessons of Clandestine Organizations
Motivation and practice in the Weather Underground and Jane (a secret abortion network).
Public Seminar, October 30, 2017

That Whole Thing the Dead Come Out Of
Searching for the gay literary warrior I might have loved.
Lambda Literary, July 2010

I Was a Terrorist
Where did it come from, the hatred that led pampered
Americans to want to bring down the system in the 1960s?  
Washington Post Magazine, February 24, 2002