Countess Elizabeth Bathory, also known as The Blood Countess and Countess
Dracula, was a noblewoman and serial killer in 16th Century Hungary. She
was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women. The Countess
avoided prison and execution due to her powerful con...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Max Nemtsov, a writer, translator, and editor
based in Moscow. Max’s translation credits include a long list of great
American post-war writers including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles
Bukowski, J.D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Richard Brautigan...
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On tonight’s show, we explore outer space, which is looking pretty
attractive right about now. Our guest is Christopher Hart, creator of the
sci-fi podcast Exoplanetary. The podcast follows four members of the
Wolverton family as they travel the solar system for a giant cor...
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Host Ken Jones talks with James Anderson, author of the mystery novel The
Never-Open Desert Diner.
James is a native of the Pacific Northwest, born in Seattle, raised in
Portland, and a graduate of Reed College. He founded Breitenbush Books, a
publishing company based in P...
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Last Friday, January 20th, was inauguration day. And shortly after Donald
Trump was sworn in as president, protestors gathered in Portland’s Pioneer
Square for an anti-Trump rally and march.
KBOO reporter Ken Jones was there with a recorder and talked with several of
the p...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Melissa Yancy, author of the new story collection
Dog Years. The book won the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, sponsored by
the University of Pittsburg Press, and one of the most prestigious awards for
a book of short fiction. Dog Years was chosen...
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It's the fifth Monday of the month. And Halloween. And another episode of The
Holy Crowley Hour, or Two! How often does that happen? Only once every
thousand years or so. We counted.
So how do you celebrate such a momentous event, one that may never happen
again in our lif...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Gigi Little, editor of the new collection of short
fiction City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales.
The tales in City of Weird, set in a Portland both real and imagined, feature
sea monsters, aliens, vampires, ghosts, robotic dogs, man-eating...
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