Jonesy

Christmas is coming a little earlier than usual to Jonesy. A lot of us are going through difficult times, and we can all use a little Christmas spirit. What better way than our own holiday tradition, re-airing Willamette Radio Workshop’s “A Radio Christmas Carol”, which I h... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Penny Allen, author of the new novel This Rescue Thing. Penny is best known as a filmmaker, whose roots as a Portland activist led to her writing, directing, and producing her first two features: Property, a Sundance Festival prize winner, in ... Read more

On today's show, we welcome Michael Keefe, author of the new novel All Her Loved Ones, Encoded from Running Wild Press. Michael’s short fiction has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Thin Air Magazine, Summerset Review, among other journals. He’s also the Events Coordinato... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel Forever Blackbirds, from Travelers Moon Press. Dian has published essays in the online magazine The Big Smoke, and is a contributor to the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk from University of Hell... Read more

Since I started doing radio shows, I’ve featured storytellers. Those who tell their stories on the printed page or on a stage, through pictures or video, or entirely through sound, as we do on the radio. And in all that time, one of the very best has been Portland Story The... Read more

On today's episode, the first in our new hourlong timeslot, we welcome Scott Nadelson, author of the new novel Trust Me, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Scott’s books include the novel Between You and Me, the memoir The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress, and six ... Read more

On today’s show, we celebrate the life of Sam Mowry, who passed away in Portland last month. Sam was an actor, both on stage and behind the mic, a director, and an impresario of radio theater, especially in his role as Artistic Director of the group he founded, Willamette R... Read more

On today's show, we welcome Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot from Sibylline Press. Suzy’s published fiction includes the novel Faultland and the young adult novels The Moment Before and The Empress Chronicles series. Her award-winning short fiction and nonfi... Read more

On today's show, we welcome Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel from Portland’s Hawthorne Books. Sidney’s book is a fictionalized account of the life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became instrumental in ending slavery in the U.S., and who many... Read more

Jonesy was busy helping out with KBOO’s live broadcast of the Waterfront Blues Festival last week, so we didn’t have time to produce a brand new episode for today’s show. But we’ll be bringing you the next best thing – a re-broadcast of our conversation for last year’s Blue... Read more