Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Brad Balukjian, author of  The Six Pack: On the Open Road to Wrestlemania , which is published by our friends at Hachette Books.  Topics of conversation include being in an open relationship with your VCR, professional wrestling, the Iron Sheik, MTV, Captain Lou Albano, driving your childhood hero to buy drugs, the line between fact and fiction, journal...

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes award-winning author Alex Pugsley back to the program!  Alex discusses his new novel  The Education of Aubrey McKee , which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include novels about art and artists, worshipful beginners, people who are not active participants in their own lives, heartbreaking naïveté, comedy vs. horror, pirates...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by R.A. Cramblitt, author of  Like Printing Money , which is published by our friends at BC Publishing Inc.  Topics of discussion include music, self-publishing, Baltimore, 3D printing, sports fandom, the Charlotte Hornets, America being built by alcohol and drugs, oil and gas and sustainable alternatives, the type of person who rocks out to AC/DC while ki...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy, who discuss  Hanging Tree Guitars , which is published by our friends at Piedmont Press in association with Music Maker Foundation.  Topics of conversation include guitar craftsmanship, mysticism and philosophy, lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, out of body experiences, gifts, and much more.  Copies of Hanging Tree Guitars ca...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence Jeffrey D. Simon, who discusses his latest book The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists , which is published by our friends at Prometheus.  Topics of conversation include terrorism, spies, growing up as the child of a cel...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Cally Fiedorek, who discusses her new novel  Atta Boy , which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include tattoos, New York exhaustion, MFA programs, working in a bar, pleasure as a pathology, Colorado, extremism, catnip for cult leaders, being smart (but not about the things that matter)...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker Georgann Eubanks, who discusses  Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology , which is co-published by our friends at No Depression and the Music Maker Foundation.  Topics of discussion include working with non-profits, the Emmys, SoLaTiDo, Music Maker Foundation, the world's happiest bluesman, Jimi H...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Daniel Wallace, who discusses his newest book  This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew , which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of discussion include teaching overseas, delineations between before and after, digesting an idea over decades, suicide prevention, carto...

This week, I am joined by Dan Hawkins, librarian at the Citadel and repeat Bookin' podcast guest (see the Emergency Cormac McCarthy episode).  Dan discusses  Pale Fire  by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest novels of all-time.  Topics of discussion include Robert Frost, J.R.R. Tolkien, unreliable narrators, the very loud amusement park right outside of Charles Kinbote's lodgings, Lolita, chess...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Katya Apekina for a discussion of her new novel Mother Doll , which is published by our friends at The Overlook Press.  Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, the Overlook Press, baby bedtime routines, visitations, September 11th, video stores, physical media vs. digital media, organization, ghost stories, self-deception, knowledge and educati...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andy Lee Roth, one of the editors--along with Mickey Huff--of  Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024 , which is published by our friends at The Censored Press and 7 Stories Press.  Topics of conversation include the upcoming election cycle, propaganda, China and North Korea, media literacy,  centered and accurate news organization, sensational...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Roger D. Rapoport, who discusses his latest novel  Searching for Patty Hearst , which is published by our friends at Lexographic Press.  Topics of conversation include filmmaking, travel guides, Lexographic Press, Rupert Murdoch, Succession, music of the decades, William Randolph Hearst, the difference in the news cycles over the ye...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Aspen Words finalist and Wonderland Book Award-winner Brian Allen Carr, who discusses his latest novel  Bad Foundations , which is published by our friends at Clash Books.  Topics of conversation include Muncie, Indiana, Taylor Swift, crawl spaces, Mary Louise Kelly, missed opportunities, living to work vs. working to live, presidential text messages, a...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Zachary Pace, author of  I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, pronouns, fathers, The Rolling Stones, Richard Dyer, voices, Madonna, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, anxiety, MySpace, Hop Along, and much mor...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by bestselling and North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame-author Jill McCorkle, who discusses her new collection Old Crimes and Other Stories, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include friendships and mentorships, North Carolina State University, creative writing classes and prompts, blood sacrifices...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Paul Andersen, who discusses his new book  Moonlight Over Pearl: Ten Stories from Aspen , which is published by our friends at Roaring Fork Press.  Topics of conversation include the Aspen Times, Kathryn Thalberg, the "definitive Aspen novel", black ice, first tracks, Goethe, nightlife, the lives that other people lead, and much mor...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Matthew J.C. Clark, author of Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences , which is published by our friends at the University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include Maine, floorboards, the correlation between possession of material goods and personal happiness, Checkov, the Tree of Liberty and its need to be refres...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Ben Goldfarb, who discusses his new book  Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet , which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton and Company.  Topics of conversation include how cliff swallows are like cockroaches, how more bird deaths are caused by roads than are caused by oil spills, the routes of all e...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Kate Brody, author of  Rabbit Hole, which is published by our friends at SOHO Crime.  Topics of conversation include publishing one's first novel, covered bridges in Maine, why humans focus on the things they don't have vs. the things they do, capitalism, book design, drugs and addiction, Dave Matthews Band cover bands, inspirational works of literature...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Angela C. Sutton, author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution , which is published by our friends at Prometheus books.  Topics of conversation include making a career out of writing about pirates, research, Black Bart, captured slaves who became pirates, the African King who drank out of a chal...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Leonard Grob, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and John K. Roth, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.  Their new book is Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy , which is published by our friends at Cascade Books.  Topics of conversation include Russia and Ukraine,...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by bestselling author Joshua Mohr, who discusses his new novel  Farsickness , which is published by our friends at House of Vlad.  Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, Aspen Words, art, voices in our heads, simile and metaphor, David Lynch, psychopath computers, what happens when someone pulls a knife around a child, and much more.  Copies of ...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Brooke Lockyer, who discusses her new novel  Burr , which is published by our friends at Nightwood Editions.  Topics of conversation include books that are like tarot cards, towns as POV characters, a young sibling death, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, trousers vs. pantaloons, the Wrestler's Code, self-realization, flat-earhter...

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes back Ray Robertson, author of  All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows , which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include how a Grateful Dead concert is like life, the Grateful Dead vs. Taylor Swift and Beyonce, Bob Weir's approach to guitar vs. Jerry Garcia's, Phil Lesh as a cantankerous guy, tribute bands, t...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann, author of  Shadows of Love  and  Shadows of Loneliness , which are published by our friends at An Unnamed Press and Rare Bird Books.  Topics of conversation include mortality, the price of convenience, hearts that are or are not troubled by atrocity, the perception of global warming in Bangladesh, American...