The Evil that Banks Do

by Jon Raymond

This book contains essays, short stories, and news analysis on banks, politics, train rides, grade school, and other issues. These essays were written during the two years leading up to the 2008 election of Barack Obama. A number of them were published on the Huffington Post. The short stories were inspiration for the making of three short film scripts, two of which were produced. Mostly these essays deal with the pressing issues of the times, a failing economy leading up to the September 2008 Wall Street crash, the politics of the 2008 presidential election, and other experiences, like dealing with my son's parent-teacher conference, being pushed to place him in a government funded program, and working at IndyMac Bank, one of the first casualties of the banking mortgage fiasco.

85 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 26, 2009

About the author

Jonathan Raymond is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for writing the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy (both directed by Kelly Reichardt). He also wrote the screenplays for Meek's Cutoff and Night Moves, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his writing on the HBO miniseries, Mildred Pierce.

Raymond grew up in Lake Grove, Oregon, attended Lake Oswego High School and graduated from Swarthmore College. He received his MFA from New School University in New York.