Just about two years ago BP (Before Pandemic), I had the great pleasure of
welcoming to KBOO four of the very best short fiction writers in Portland, in
the whole country for that matter: Margaret Malone, author of People Like
You, which was a Pen Hemingway finalist; Kim...
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On today's episode, we welcome John Neff, Portland resident recently retired
from a very long, productive, and fascinating career in music and recording.
John started playing guitar at the age of 10 while growing up in Pontiac,
Michigan. He formed The Ascots at 14, writi...
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One of our favorite holiday traditions here on Jonesy is watching A Christmas
Story, the 1983 movie directed by Bob Clark, who also directed Porky's
(1981), another of our holiday favorites.
A Christmas Story is based on the holiday memories of writer and radio
monologu...
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Today on Jonesy, we we pay tribute to arguably Oregon’s greatest writer,
Ursula K. Le Guin. I’m sure Ken Kesey would have loved to arm wrestle her
for the title, but I think he’d lose. Ursula was not only a brilliant and
prolific author, but an activist for the environme...
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Today on Jonesy, we welcome Shawn Levy, author of the new book of poems A
Year in the Life of Death, from Portland’s University of Hell Press.
Inspired by an obituary for Adele Mailer in the New York Times, Shawn decided
to write 100 poems based on obits published in the...
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Many of the in-person events we look forward to every year in Portland were
canceled last year, or went online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fortunately, we have a very effective vaccine now, and hope for the future of
live events. Several of my favorites, maybe yours to...
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Today on Jonesy, we preview the upcoming Portland Book Festival with Amanda
Bullock, Director of Public Programs at Literary Arts. The festival, which
started out in 2005, has become an annual tradition here in Portland. And
our preview with Amanda has become an annual t...
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This is our very first episode of Jonesy. We’ll be bringing you
conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world of
literature, radio theater, podcasts, music, and humor, on every 2nd and 4th
Thursday of the month from 11am to 11:30am PT.
Our guest to...
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