Jonesy

On today's episode, we celebrate the launch of the new anthology Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors, from Forest Avenue Press. Our guests are the collection’s editor, Annie Carl, and two of those 31 contributors – Ellis Bray and Simon Quinn. The 31 ... Read more

As the temperatures drop here in Portland, the leaves turn color, and the rain starts falling, it’s a sure sign Autumn has arrived. A good time to pause the social media doom scrolling and sit down with a few books you’ve been wanting to read. It’s also a sure sign the Port... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome William T. Vollmann, author of Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, a new two-volume collection of his visual art, including photographs, drawings, prints, and paintings, from 1980 to 2022, published by Unnamed Press and Rare Bird Books. In... Read more

On today's show, we welcome Aaron Adams and Liz Crain, authors of the new cookbook Fermenter: DIY Fermentation for Vegan Fare, from Sasquatch Books. Aaron is owner/chef of Fermenter and the new Workshop Food & Drink restaurants in Portland. He grew up in the East Bay, where... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Cathy Zheutlin, filmmaker and director/writer/producer of the documentary Living While Dying, from Portland’s Peace Films. Living While Dying was an official selection of the 2018 Portland Film Festival and winner of the Resiliency in Aging A... Read more

Melinda Peterson passed away earlier this month. She was an immensely gifted actress on stage, screen, and radio, and a kind and generous human being. I met Melinda only twice in person, when she accompanied her husband, Phil Proctor of the legendary comedy troupe Firesign ... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel About the Carleton Sisters from She Writes Press. After studying both writing and counseling psychology in San Francisco, Dian now lives and writes here in Portland, and works as a family therapist. Whic... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Susana Millman, author of the photograph collection Alive with the Dead ~or~ A Fly on the Wall with a Camera. The book includes over 500 of Susana’s photographs following the Grateful Dead and friends from the mid 1980s, through Jerry Garcia’s... Read more

It’s summer here on Jonesy, as it might be for you, and that means Jonesy himself is on the run, I mean traveling again, I don’t know where. What I do know is this show comes to a complete stand-still when he’s gone. So we’ll be doing what we usually do – re-airing one of o... Read more

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 preview w... Read more