Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Lexi Freiman, author of  The Book of Ayn , which is published by our friends at Catapult.  Topics of conversation include Australia, Ayn Rand, cancel culture, narcissism, The Fountainhead, Michelangelo's David, Succession, yoga pants, and much more.  Copies of  The Book of Ayn  can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+ .

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Bennett Sims, who discusses his new book  Other Minds and Other Stories , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include the University of Iowa, flash fiction, mummies, zombie novels, David Foster Wallace and Carmen Maria Machado, cell phones, Alfred Hitchcock, and much more.  Copies of  Other...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Meredith Ritchie, author of  Poster Girls , which is published by our friends at Warren Publishing.  Topics of conversation include acute empty nest syndrome, raising triplets, the World War II-era in Charlotte, NC, attitudes towards women and minorities in the 1940s, church, book clubs, and much more.  Copies of  Poster Girls  can be ordered here with...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Nikki Marmery, author of  Lilith , which is published by our friends at Alcove Press.  Topics of conversation include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Adam as a man who was never satisfied, Diablo IV, Lilith Fair, Lilith as the first woman, logic and the Tower of Babel, The Matrix, and much more.  Copies of  Lilith  can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for mem...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by coach Jeff Patterson, who discusses his new book  The Big Thing Effect: How to Transform Your Life Forever , which is published by our friends at Aspen Success Press.  Topics of conversation include big things, how death can lend a new perspective to life, the Denver Nuggets and winning something vs. watching someone else win something, climbing a mount...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Farah Ali, author of  The River, The Town , which is published by our friends at Dzanc Books.  Topics of conversation include geographical locations with no source of water, why a mother hates her son, men who hide themselves behind television, propaganda, religion, more money more problems, poetic deaths, and much more.  Copies of  The River, The Town...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by former NC Piedmont Laureate David Menconi, who discusses his new book  Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music , which is published by our friends at UNC Press.  Topics of conversation include IBMA and Wide Open Bluegrass, the Union Grove Old Time Fiddler's Convention, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss, the c...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Christine Evans, author of  Nadia , which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include writing a novel vs. writing a play or an opera, Bosnia and Sarajevo, the perception of Russians in 1997 vs. 2023, working for temp agencies, Y2K, parenting with ghost stories, Nick Cave, immigration and immigrants, and much...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Christine Lai, who discusses her new novel  Landscapes , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include novels about art, what you can learn about a character based on their attitude towards another character's art (through the lens of Nabokov's  Pale Fire ), whether a critic can ever become a part of the art they a...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Nathan Hill, bestselling author of  The Nix , who discusses his new novel  Wellness , which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of discussion include Florida, voyeurism, neckties as a positive or negative, present day internet vs. internet 1.0, hypertext literature, video games, reality vs. the ideal, Kidz Bop, Minecraft, truthiness,...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Adam Bessie, author of  Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey , which is published by our friends at Seven Stories Press and The Censored Press.  Topics of conversation include teaching in the COVID-era, the education system as a waterway, surviving brain cancer, the Matrix, Literature of the Apocalypse, the state of public education, and much more.  Copies...

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes back New York Times bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, who discusses his new novel  Not Forever, But For Now , which is published by our friends at Simon & Schuster.  Topics of discussion include book tours, changing publishers, shock value, punk rock, nature films, kangaroos, Portland, OR, Amy Hempel, Winnie the Pooh, serial killers as pen pals, Peric...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Hugh Hodges, author of  The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes , which is published by our friends at PM Press.  Topics of conversation include Bob Marley, music as a unifier, Margaret Thatcher, the BBC, Donald Trump, Heaven 17, mixed tapes, Chumbawamba, Rage Against the Machine, and much more.  Copies of  The Fascist G...

This week is Bookin's 250th episode!  Host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning & bestselling author Sarah Rose Etter, who discusses her new novel Ripe , which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of conversation include moving, the smell of a train in San Francisco, class divides, tech industry Believers, screen time, Voyager, parental relationships, black holes, panic attac...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Stephen Markley, who discusses his new novel  The Deluge , which is published by our friends at Simon and Schuster.  Topics of discussion include remarkable reading experiences, methane hydrates, Easter as a "lesser holiday", text abuse, LOST, audiobooks, Tom Cruise, using  Blood Meridian  to pick up dates, Tinder, Opie, Kanye West, Nikola Jokic, and mu...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ben Purkert, author of The Men Can't Be Saved , which is published by our friends at The Overlook Press.  Topics of conversation include Hanif Abdurraqib, jobs and what they do to our souls, 15 minutes of fame, adult men's diapers, David Foster Wallace, Nabokov, non-profits, workplace romances, video games, and more!  Copies of  The Men Can't Be Saved  ...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Wilton Barnhardt, who discusses his new novel Western Alliances , which is published by our friends at St. Martin's Press.  Topics of conversation include North Carolina, William T. Vollmann, bourbon, travel, photography, the 2008 financial collapse, the bond market, Henry Miller, European elevators, Zelda Fitzgerald, N...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, who discusses her new novel  Lady Tan's Circle of Women , which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of discussion include foot binding, medicine as practiced in China vs. the USA, suffering as love, gender roles in 15th century China, concubines, lavish homes, the Chinese zodiac, and more.  Copies...

This week's Bookin' features bestselling author, founder of Zoetrope, and Executive Director of Aspen Words Adrienne Brodeur, who discusses her new novel  Little Monsters , which is published by our friends at Simon & Schuster.  Topics of discussion include Aspen Words, the nature of secrets, possession, privilege, the Barnes & Noble Book of the Month, art and science in literature, friend...

This week's Bookin' features Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya, author of The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, the relativity of time, sports novels, pain pills, basing one's decision to have or not have children on the news cycle, birds flying into windows, Colombia, dating teachers, the value of literatu...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Jim Ruland, who discusses his newest novel  Make It Stop , which is published by our friends at Rare Bird.  Topics of discussion include Bad Religion, Keith Morris, the intersection of music and literature, bars that offer tattoos, cults, hospital bills, shopping mall culture, work colleagues as family members, and much more.  Copie...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Kevin Gosztola, author of  Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case against Julian Assange , which is published by our friends at 7 Stories Press and The Censored Press.  Topics of discussion include the Shadowproof news outlet and Unauthorized Disclosure podcast, Julian Assange, whistleblowers and the prosecution of whistleblowers by the United States...

This week, host Jason Jefferies discusses one of the greatest authors to ever put pen to page, Cormac McCarthy, with Dan Hawkins, Librarian at the Daniel Library at The Citadel.  Topics of conversation include the author as celebrity, violence, genre fiction vs. literary fiction, writing for film and the stage, the Coen Brothers, Faulkner vs. Hemingway, new year's resolutions, fatherhood, Oprah's...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author and host of Jeopardy Ken Jennings, who discusses his new book  100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife , which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of conversation include religious skepticism, Dante and Milton vs. George Lucas and George R.R. Martin, the afterlife as the DMV, the Ba...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary author T.C. Boyle, who discusses his new novel  Blue Skies , which is published by our friends at Liveright.  Topics of discussion include using animals as jewelry, pets as substitutes for children, narrative structures, the desire to save the earth vs. the desire to keep consuming, raising insects as sources of food, Florida vs. California, "...