Bookin’

In this episode, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bookin' favorite Alex Pugsley, who discusses his latest novel  Silver Lake , which is published by our friends at Biblioasis. Topics of conversation include Dan Ackroyd, modernism, talk shows, Famke Jannsen and David Lynch, car culture, the advisability of dating one's co-workers, work as fun, and much more.  Copies of  Silver Lake  can be ordered...

On this episode of Bookin', host Jason Jefferies and longtime Bookin' guest Dan Hawkins continue their Cormac McCarthy read through with Cities of the Plain, volume three of The Border Trilogy. Also discussed are Cormac McCarthy novel and film/TV adaptation Power Rankings.  Happy reading, friends!

On this episode of Bookin', host Jason Jefferies and longtime Bookin' guest Dan Hawkins continue their Cormac McCarthy read through with The Crossing, volume two of The Border Trilogy. Also discussed is the condition of the United States of America in the moment of recording on January 22, 2025, before the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis.  

This week, Jason and Dan continue their Cormac McCarthy readathon with the first book of The Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses.  Topics of conversation include the yin and yang of Blood Meridian, terrible films, the candleflame and the image of the candleflame, and Jesus on Mars (doesn't it make you want to cry?).  Happy reading, friends!

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes Kraig Finstad, author of Problem Play  and  The Inn at the Crossroads . Topics of conversation include cognitive psychology and statistics, ghosts and pirates, Florida novels, that guy at the bar, historical fiction, Shakespeare and much more.  Copies of  The Inn at the Crossroads  and  Problem Play  can be ordered from bookshop.org .

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes David Haynes, author of  Martha's Daughter , which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include workshopping short stories vs. novels, novellas, relationships, mother/daughter dynamics, whether we should let co-workers into our personal lives, rhetorical education, America's underbelly, and much more.  Copies of Martha's Daugh...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pat Lipsky, artist and author of  Brightening Glance: Art and Life , which is published by our friends at the University of Iowa Press. Topics of conversation include duck and cover drills, "Russia", Proust, Kafka & Chekhov, a life filled with art, artist's parties, printing your own currency and more.  Copies of Brightening Glance can be purchased...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Levithan and Jens Lekman, authors of  Songs for Other People's Weddings, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of conversation include touring, singing at a wedding vs. singing at a music hall, albums about books (and books about albums), change in the music industry, collaborative art, and much more.  Copies of Songs for Othe...

This week, Dan Hawkins and Jason Jefferies continue to read through the works of Cormac McCarthy with The Stonemason. Child of God is also discussed (by way of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita), and Dan and Jason answer a listener question about Blood Meridian. Happy reading, friends!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Gary Graff, editor of  501 Essential Albums of the 80s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide , which is published by our friends at Quarto Publishing Group. Topics of discussion include Alice Cooper, lists, what people think of when they think of the 1980s (hair), Walkmans and boomboxes, CDs and cassettes, MTV, and much more.  Copies of 501 Essential Albums...

On this episode, host Jason Jefferies and award-winning poet Dan Hawkins continue their read through of the works of Cormac McCarthy, this time with his first screenplay, The Gardener's Son. Further, Jason and Dan start their discussion about film adaptations of McCarthy's works with PBS's The Gardener's Son and James Franco's Child of God. Happy reading, friends!

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes back Bookin' favorite Dan Hawkins, librarian at The Citadel and Cormac McCarthy aficionado. This time, Jason and Dan talk about Blood Meridian, and oh boy is it a big one. Copies of Blood Meridian can be purchased from your favorite local independent bookstore. Happy reading!

On this week's Bookin', host Jason Jefferies interviews Professor Keon West, author of The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know But Probably Don't--Yet, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of conversation include the state of the world, Michelle Obama, how to teach a population to vet its sources, Star Trek, bias and racism in hiring practices, the UK vs. the USA,...

On this week's Bookin', host Jason Jefferies welcomes Elaine Neil Orr, who discusses her new novel  Dancing Woman , which is published by our friends at Blair.  Topics of discussion include people who are perfectly logical all the time, Nigeria, 1963, Harry Belafonte, mixed feelings about the church, how writing a novel is like painting, USAID, and more!  Signed copies of Dancing Woman  can be ord...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mark Kingwell, professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.  His new book is Question Authority , which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include current affairs in Canada, super-cycle elections, demonization, what trustworth...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by frequent guest and Librarian at The Citadel Dan Hawkins, who discusses  Suttree  by Cormac McCarthy.  Topics of conversation include Vanity Fair, James Joyce and William Faulkner, existentialism, Walker Percy and much more.  Copies of Suttree  can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  Happy reading!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andy Corren, author of  Dirtbag Queen , which is published by our friends at Grand Central Publishing.  Topics of conversation include bookstores in New York, obituaries, the right side of Fayetteville, nice furniture rooms, a child's perception of enormous riches, Donnie and Marie Osmond vs. RuPaul, and much more.  Signed copies of Dirtbag Queen  can b...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Julian Zabalbeascoa, author of  What We Tried to Bury Grows Here , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include the Two Dollar Radio tattoo club, the Spanish Civil War, parallels between pre-WWII Spain and the United States of America in 2025, individual liberties as great threats, James Joyce's Ulysses, research,...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by the legendary poet Paul Jones, who discusses his new collection  Something Necessary , which is published by our friends at Redhawk Publications.  Topics of conversation include the Arch Mission Foundation, support for an author community, musical writing, the place of poetry in a bookstore, seeing a poem in a piece of bread, and much more.  Copies of ...

This week, Dan Hawkins and Jason Jefferies talk about Cormac McCarthy's  Child of God  by way of the recent Vanity Fair article that exposes Cormac McCarthy's relationship with Augusta Britt, which started when she was age 14-16.  Discusses are issues of art vs. the artist, artists versus politicians, thinks that are "of their time" and many more minefields.  Copies of Child of God  can be ordered...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning journalist David Aldridge in a discussion about  The Basketball 100: The Story of the Greatest Players in NBA History , which is published by our friends at William Morrow.  Topics of conversation include the shot clock, ACC basketball, analytics, how to accurately rank active players, Steph Curry vs. Larry Bird, Manu Ginobli and Tony Park...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Gaelan Bergstrom and Ben Diehl is a conversation about  Berserk  by Kentaro Miura.  Topics of conversation include the first arc of  Berserk , Japanese pop-culture, radiation, the place of manga in a bookstore, and much more!  Copies of  Berserk  can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Waker Forest, NC.  Happy reading!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andrew K. Clark, author of  Where Dark Things Grow, which is published by our friends at Cowboy Jamboree Press.  Topics of conversation include growing up in the midst of the eternal battle between good and evil, ancestry, the years between World War I and World War II, wulvers, magic, genre fiction vs literary fiction, monsters and Jesus, tall tales, a...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning and bestselling writer and illustrator John Hendrix, who discuss his new book The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien , which is published by our friends at Abrams.  Topics of conversation include Missouri, friendship, Norse Mythology, methodologies, genre fiction, lions and wizards, The Great Departure o...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sam Sax, author of  Yr Dead , which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include ITALIC lecturers, trigger warnings, queer planets, a myth buried in blood, Apple stores, books as objects, text message conversations in literature, laser discs, the human ritual, belonging, and much more.  Copies of  Yr Dead  can be purchased...