This is our first show of the new year, and I’d like to ring in 2026 doing something I started for our first show in 2025. It’s an audio retrospective of last year’s interviews on Jonesy. Which I call Beginnings, for the beginning of the new year and the fact we’re playing only the beginnings, the first few minutes of the interviews, and meshing them all together. Kind of Terry Gross meets William S. Burroughs. And we do it chronologically, from our first interview last January to our final interview of 2025 just a few weeks ago.
Here’s the guest list, in order of appearance – Sarah Neidhardt and Wendy McPhee, Jeremy Braddock and David Ossman, Karen Russell, Elizabeth Heider, Laura Stanfill, Elaine Pagels. Nancy Townsley, Miriam Gershow, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jon Raymond, Mo Daviau, Leni Zumas, Gigi Little, Brandon Hoang, and Amy Mason Doan. And I enjoyed talking with all of them.
So please join me for Beginnings, a look back at the past year on Jonesy, and a prelude of things to come in the new one, which is already in progress.