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Jonathan was interviewed on KQED Radio's Forum with Michael Krasny: The Day The Music Died on February 4, 2009.

Jonathan Cott has a new article published in the January 2009 issue of Rolling Stone, Not Fade Away: Remembering Buddy Holly on the 50th Anniversary of His Death. The piece commemorates the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash on February 3rd, 1959.

Jonathan has co-authored with Karen Rester an article for Salon on the Amygdaloids, a rock band of neuroscientists. The article is an interview with the Amygdaloids' Joseph Ledoux, who contends that music, emotion and memory help to shape our identities.

Jonathan recently edited Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews.

Jonathan is also most recently the author of On The Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering.

Jonathan also served as editor for the late Studs Terkel's book, And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.