We have a few annual traditions here on Jonesy, ones I look forward to every
year: our Portland Book Festival preview with director Amanda Bullock, the
Portland Youth Philharmonic season opener with Musical Director David
Hattner, and the Waterfront Blues Festival previe...
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On today's special hour-long Jonesy, our guests are Kristen and Ville
Jokinen, who cycled from the top of Alaska to the southernmost tip of
Argentina, an adventure covering 18,215 miles over 20 months. Kristen
chronicles the trip in the new book Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey ...
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On today's episode, we welcome Joshua James Amberson, author of the new book
Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes, from Portland’s Perfect Day Publishing.
Joshua’s writing includes the novel How to Forget Almost Everything, a
series of chapbooks from Two Plum Press, and th...
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We're back again in the KBOO studios with guest Zaji Cox, author of the new
book Plums for Months: Memories of a wonder-filled, neurodivergent childhood,
from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press.
Zaji’s been writing fiction since her first short story at the age of nine.
She...
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We’ll be previewing two very special concerts on today’s News In Depth.
The first features the World Premiere of Jessica Meyer’s Because I Will Not
Despair and the West Coast Premiere of Kareem Roustom’s Hurry to the Light,
performed by In Mulieribus, Portland’s acclaime...
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We're back in the KBOO studios after three long years doing the show remotely
via Zoom. And I'm so happy our first guest is Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher, author
of the story collection No God Like the Mother, from Portland’s Forest
Avenue Press.
Kesha was born in Chicago, raised ...
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We have a very special episode of Jonesy for you today, so special in fact,
we needed an extra hour, 90 minutes in total, to get it all in. Our guest is
Andrew Meier, author of the new multi-generational biography Morgenthau:
Power, Privilege and the Rise of an American ...
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On today's episode, we welcome Patricia Horvath, author of the new story
collection But Now Am Found from Black Lawrence Press. Patricia is the author
of the memoir All the Difference and her stories and essays have appeared in
Shenandoah, Confrontation, New Ohio Review,...
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On today's episode, we welcome Josh Riedel, author of the new novel Please
Report Your Bug Here from Henry Holt. Josh graduated from Portland's Reed
College, as an English major, then moved to the Bay Area to work at Facebook
in its early days. Josh left Facebook to join...
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