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Beginnings 2026
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.
Beginnings 2026
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.
God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture
One of the reasons you write a book is to talk about things you would never say out loud. Sometimes those are secret things, like bad feelings, or unpopular opinions, but more often they’re simply impressions too lyrical or banal for normal conversation. For instance, I’d almost never tell anyone how pretty I think a tree is—as if no one’s ever loved a tree!—but I’m constantly finding places to put heartfelt tree feelings into fiction. Same goes for things like making oatmeal or driving down I-5.
Drugstore Cowboy: Higher Powers
Essays— Feb 19, 2025 “The Northwest’s Odyssey”—that’s what the great Puget Sound–born writer Charles D’Ambrosio once called Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel Sometimes a Great Notion. What he meant by that, I think, was that Kesey’s swaggering tale of an antiunion logging family, the Stampers, stands as epic and originary, and possibly the ultimate reference point for any literature written in this region ever after.
To hell with the New.
Letter from the editors, originally published in Plazm 29, 2008. By Jon Raymond, Joshua Berger, and Tiffany Lee Brown We already have more music, writing, art, and experience piled up than we can possibly deal with, and so much of the fresh news we receive is at best a distraction. Every week, the next movies arrive,the next celebrity temper tantrum, the next batch of lies from the podium, and meanwhile Jack Abramoff’s gaming of the political system already seems like ancient history.
Visibility and Erasure: Julia Bryan-Wilson on the Artist Louise Nevelson
Julia Bryan-Wilson is an art historian of enormous productivity, insight, range, and flair, with copious writing and curating credits, abundant laurels from diverse institutions, and generations of student acolytes.
PNW Fiction Sale | Powell's Books
No God Like the Mother “No God Like the Mother is the sort of story collection that comes along very rarely — honest, precise, and meticulous in its emotional and physical detail. These globe-spanning stories — so often set at the intersection of nurture and abandonment, of intimacy and great emptying distance — are each a pristine act of storytelling, an immersion.
Watch the trailer for Kelly Reichardt’s SHOWING UP Starring Michelle Williams
Written by Rama on Dec 15, 2022. Posted in Movies, Tight Trailers Tags: Andre Benjamin, Hong Chau, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Judd Hirsch, Maryann Plunkett, Michelle Williams, Showing Up Watch the official trailer for Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and captivatingly funny Showing Up. Starring Academy-Award® nominee Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, John Magaro, André Benjamin, and Judd Hirsch.
Official Poster For Kelly Reichardt’s SHOWING UP Starring Michelle Williams - In Theaters Spring 2023
Written by Rama on Dec 06, 2022. Posted in Movies, Tight Trailers Tags: Andre Benjamin, Hong Chau, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Judd Hirsch, Maryann Plunkett, Michelle Williams, Showing Up A24 has released this official poster for Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and captivatingly funny Showing Up. Starring Academy-Award® nominee Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, John Magaro, André Benjamin, and Judd Hirsch.
Portland Book Festival: One venue’s reading list
Karen Pate worked 29 years as an editor at , most of that time overseeing community news and features in Washington and Clackamas counties. She’s written about storytellers and banjo players, English-language bookstores in Paris and horses who starred in movies. Her work has appeared in and various equestrian publications. She wandered into journalism after studying creative writing at Reed College.
13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel
Jumping off Wallace Stevens’s classic poem, “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” 13 Ways of Looking asks authors to show the visual inspirations for their latest projects, with accompanying background on how these images directly or indirectly influenced their book. Fourth in the series is Jon Raymond, whose latest novel is called Denial. –Rob Spillman * I wanted this to be an optical book. What does that mean, exactly? Well, for one, I wanted a lot of pretty things in there.
Speculative Journeys: Sci-Fi for People Who Don’t Really Like Sci-Fi
I wrote a sci-fi book, and yet I don’t really love science fiction. As a kid, I liked it. I remember enjoying books by Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, and about a thousand comic books involving space ships and aliens. But then, around fifth grade, I got the idea that a person had to decide between sci-fi and fantasy.
DENIAL | Kirkus Reviews
by Jon Raymond ‧ Thirty years in the future, following widespread environmental disasters, a newspaper reporter tracks down a pipeline manager responsible for massive crimes against the planet. The target, Robert Cave, has been hiding in Mexico, having escaped Nuremberg-like trials in Toronto that sent a rogues’ gallery of energy executives to prison in the wake of sweeping global protests known as the Upheavals.
Jon Raymond: Hardcover: 9781982181833: Powell's Books
by Jon Raymond Release Date: 7/27/2022 Upcoming Event Denial (Simon & Schuster) is a futuristic thriller about climate change by Jon Raymond, the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce. The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse.
Typecasting: Emily Nemens & Charles Yu
Go behind the curtain of two quintessentially American worlds—baseball and Hollywood—in these novels about ambition, disappointment, family, and the possibility of a new story. In Emily Nemens‘ debut, The Cactus League, Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams.
Jon Raymond on Yale Union and the Center for Native Arts and Cultures
ON SITE Jon Raymond on Yale Union and the Center for Native Arts and Cultures Yale Union Laundry Building, Portland, OR, 2008. THE LAND SURROUNDING the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers—site of current-day Portland, Oregon, and its greater metropolitan area—was not that long ago one of the navels of continental civilization.
First Cow
Directed by Kelly Reichardt Year 2020 Written by Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond Starring John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, and Ewen Bremner
Books — PLAZM — signed first editions by Jon Raymond
The Half-Life Longtime Plazm editor Jon Raymond‘s stunning debut novel about two friendships separated by generations but bound together by a dark mystery. Signed copies of hardbound first edition. First Cow, the new film by Kelly Reichardt is a stellar display of cinematic mastery. It is her latest collaboration with Plazm editor Jon Raymond, and is based on his first novel, The Half Life. Watch on demand now Shipping charges added during checkout.
Margaret Kilgallen: That’s Where the Beauty Is
Margaret Kilgallen: that's where the beauty is. Essays BY COURTENAY FINN AND JENELLE PORTER, FOREWORD BY HEIDI ZUCKERMAN. ASPEN, CO: ASPEN ART PRESS. 210 PAGES. $50. Purchase this book: Indiebound • Amazon MARGARET KILGALLEN WAS BORN IN 1967, landed in San Francisco in 1989, and passed away of cancer in 2001.
All-Story: Issues: Volume 22 Number 4: Winter 2018/2019
Print copies of this issue are still available.
Little Bits of Paper Everywhere: An Oral History of Snipehunt Magazine and Kathy Molloy
Snipehunt 1994, No. 19. Cover art by Sean Tejaratchi In the Portland of the late ’80s and ’90s, there was one publication that influenced and guided the music and arts community more than any other: a free, wildly designed, oversized newsprint magazine called Snipehunt. Started in 1988 by now-famed poster artist Mike King, the magazine came into its own when contributor Kathy Molloy took the helm a couple years in.
All-Story: Issues: Volume 22 Number 4: Winter 2018/2019
The New Generation of Classic Short Stories Current Issue: Volume 22 Number 4 Print copies of this issue are still available. Add To Cart Vol 22 No 4 Winter 2018/2019 Guest Designer: David Lynch Masthead Notes on Contributors Stories Note on Design by David Lynch Freyr by Tommy Orange The Buyer Is King by Jon Raymond Little Mothers by Esmé Weijun Wang Tell Him I’m Dangerous by Barry Gifford An Introduction to “The Discipline of DE” by Gus Van Sant The Discipline of DE by William S.
WORD Presents Jon Raymond for FREEBIRD
Jon Raymond is the author of the novels Rain Dragon and The Half-Life, and the short story collection Livability, winner of the Oregon Book Award. He is also the screenwriter of the film Meek's Cutoff and cowriter of the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, winner of five Emmy Awards. Raymond's writing has appeared in Tin House, The Village Voice, Bookforum, Artforum, Playboy, Zoetrope, and other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz
I'm currently reading Aisha Sabatini Sloan's essay collection Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, which was chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest. I've been an admirer of Sloan's essays since her first collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White, was published. I read Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely and now I'm rereading Citizen.
Bill Callahan by Jon Raymond
Back in the early ’90s, the record label Drag City had a pretty incredible touch, pulling together a stable of artists including seminal groups like Stephen Malkmus’s Pavement, Will Oldham’s Palace, David Berman’s Silver Jews, Neil Hagerty’s Royal Trux, and Bill Callahan’s one-man band, Smog. They were a disparate bunch of dudes that made American music frightening again by tapping into its most tangled roots. Callahan was the most emotionally raw.
Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus of VISA on capitalism and spirituality.
Interview by Jon Raymond VISA, it turns out, came to being in the late 1960s, out of the tumult of the early credit card industry, and went on to grow as no financial institution had ever grown before, a thousand fold in less than twenty five years. It now links more than a billion consumers in an enterprise with an annual sales volume of $1.8 trillion, the largest consumer purchasing block in the history of the world.
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