Viewfinder:
A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen By Jon M. Chu and Jeremy McCarter Forthcoming from Random House, July 2024 EW exclusive: Read the reveal here Read Jon's IG announcement Available for pre-order here |
Lake Song
Co-creator, co-writer, and executive producer Make-Believe Association, 2022 Official selection of the Tribeca Festival's Audio Premieres showcase "Show That Captured Our Imagination" -- Apple Podcasts Winner of three Signal Awards "An audio drama that intersects with poetry, music, science fiction, and politics" -- Chicago Tribune |
In the Heights: Finding Home
By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter Random House, 2021 "An exuberant, unique, and invaluable record of dynamic, brilliant, and soulful creativity." -- Booklist (starred review) The epic making of "Carnaval del Barrio": Read an excerpt in EW Buy the book here. Listen to an audiobook excerpt read by America Ferrera here. |
City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919
By Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter A co-production of WBEZ and Make-Believe Association An audio docudrama about the summer that ravaged a city--and remade it Listen here. |
Make-Believe Association
A new Chicago-based production company Founder and Executive Producer The company's online home: makebelieve.fm Follow along at: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Overcast | Stitcher | RadioPublic |
Young Radicals
By Jeremy McCarter Random House, 2017 "Brilliant, even inspiring, full of whip-smart analysis that deserves to be read. Fresh and important" - The Wall Street Journal "A beautiful, desperately-needed book that renders hope real again" - PopMatters "Engaging, moving, laugh-out-loud funny" - Library Journal, starred review "May well resonate with young radicals today" - TIME Top 10 spring books - Publishers Weekly Buy at Bookshop.org | Indiebound | B&N | Apple Books |
Hamilton: The Revolution
By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter Grand Central Publishing, 2016 Hamilton and Obama: an essay for Buzzfeed NPR joint interview with Lin Vulture interview on writing the book #hamiltome on Twitter Buy at Bookshop.org | IndieBound | B&N | Apple Books |
Public Forum
Founder, director, producer, host The Public Theater in New York, 2010-2015 The New Yorker on “Shakespeare in America” The New York Times on “What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money, and Morals” Vanity Fair on “What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money, and Morals” The New York Times on “Public Forum Duet: David Byrne and Questlove” Buzzfeed on “Public Forum Drama Club: An Evening with Desdemona and Emilia” |
Bite the Hand That Feeds You:
Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie Edited and with an introduction by Jeremy McCarter Yale University Press, 2009 Christopher Hitchens review in The New York Times David Remnick review in The New Yorker Esquire “Daily Endorsement”: “I read Bite the Hand That Feeds You. And I’m better and wiser for it.” |