Jonesy

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Airs at: Thu, 06/12/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am

Hosted by:

Ken Jones

Produced by:

KBOO

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You'll meet the most interesting people in the world of literature, radio theater, podcasts, music, and humor here.

Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month from 10:30am to 11:30am PT.

I'm the host of Jonesy, Ken Jones. No relation, by the way.

Topic tags:

Arts/Culture, Fiction, Family, Environment/Climate, Humor, Media, Music, Poetry, Radio Theater, Science/Technology, Sexuality, Sports, War/Peace

Genre(s):

Arts and Culture, Radio Theatre, Spoken Arts

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am

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Today on Jonesy, we we pay tribute to arguably Oregon’s greatest writer, Ursula K. Le Guin. I’m sure Ken Kesey would have loved to arm wrestle her for the title, but I think he’d lose. Ursula was not only a brilliant and prolific author, but an activist for the environme... Read more

Shawn Levy, author of A Year in the Life of Death

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am

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Today on Jonesy, we welcome Shawn Levy, author of the new book of poems A Year in the Life of Death, from Portland’s University of Hell Press. Inspired by an obituary for Adele Mailer in the New York Times, Shawn decided to write 100 poems based on obits published in the... Read more

Amanda Bullock previews the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 10/28/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am

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Today on Jonesy, we preview the upcoming Portland Book Festival with Amanda Bullock, Director of Public Programs at Literary Arts. The festival, which started out in 2005, has become an annual tradition here in Portland. And our preview with Amanda has become an annual t... Read more

Ari Honarvar, author of A Girl Called Rumi

Airs at: Thu, 10/14/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am

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This is our very first episode of Jonesy. We’ll be bringing you conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world of literature, radio theater, podcasts, music, and humor, on every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month from 11am to 11:30am PT. Our guest to... Read more