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On today's episode, we welcome Karen Russell, author of the new novel The Antidote from Knopf. The Antidote is Karen’s sixth book of fiction, following the story collections Orange World, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, the novel... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Jeremy Braddock, author of the new book Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (University of California Press). Jeremy is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in the history of mode... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Sarah Neidhardt, author of the memoir Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, from The University of Arkansas Press. The book recounts Sarah’s experience growing up as part of a back-to-the land family in a small, isolated town in th... Read more

This is our first show of the new year, 2025, a year many of us are approaching with some trepidation, if not outright dread. When I sat down to plan the episode, I was feeling uninspired and rudderless, not knowing how to continue, or even if I should continue. But in the ... Read more

On today's episode we welcome Nui Wilson, Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, and Gigi Little, collaborators on the new picture book A Tree of My Own, from Portland's Qlin Press. Nui Wilson is the book’s author. She’s a Karen woman who was born and raised in Western Thailand. She mov... Read more

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