Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Junior Burke, author of  Buddha Was a Cowboy , which is published by our friends at Gibson House Press.  Topics of conversation include zen koans, mindful instruction, gurus, the concept of Jesus of Nazareth rooting for a football squad, key holders, hypocrisy, writing for a market, Colorado Springs as the evangelical Vatican, and much more.  Copies of...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jinwoo Chong, author of  Flux , which is published by our friends at Melville House.  Topics of discussion include Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, fake television shows, art that is ahead of its time, whether a relationship can succeed if one person is intolerant of the other person's passions, subscription rate hikes, whether society can handle a glitch...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Hollander, who discusses his newest book How Basketball Can Save the World , which is published by our friends at Harmony.  Topics of discussion include advising ESPNW, basketball as an existential matter, how basketball can save us from climate destruction, Nikola Jokic, the MVP award, James Naismith, Bill Russell vs. Wilt Chamberlain, Ja Morant,...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Shelley Read, author of  Go as a River , which is published by our friends at Spiegel & Grau.  Topics of discussion include long-term projects, how the bottom of a lake is like the moon, peaches in Colorado vs. peaches in the southeastern USA, parenting towards Judgement Day, farming, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, differing concepts of home and plac...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Kathryn Bromwich, who discusses her new novel  At the Edge of the Woods , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include Richard Powers' The Overstory, wilderness narratives that captivate our imaginations, a female protagonist living off the grid, how one's mind works first thing in the morning, a mountain as a s...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by prize winning author Rita Zoey Chin, who discusses her new novel  The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern , which is published by our friends at Melville House Publishing.  Topics of conversation include writing in the COVID-era, carnivals, elephants, South Carolina, the confederate flag, 21st birthdays, Eddie Murphy, contemplating infinity, midterm electi...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by American Poets Prize and Pushcart Prize-winning author Maggie Smith, who discusses her new memoir  You Could Make This Place Beautiful , which is published by our friends at One Signal Publishers.  Topics of conversation include the literary scene in Columbus, the phrase "tell-all", the evolution of the creative process, how to tell when something seems...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Janice Obuchowski, who discusses her new short story collection  The Woods , which is published by our friends at the University of Iowa Press.  Topics of discussion include authors in Middlebury, Vermont, the challenges of basing a book's setting on a town where one lives, feral cats, the spectral, confusion, the nature of time, Ro...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Emmy award-winning author Kate Manning, who discusses her new novel  Gilded Mountain , which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of conversation include Colorado, poodles in hair parlors and society clubs, similarities between Colorado and Vermont, selling beauty, writing about snow, unions in the early 1900s and in the current era, newspap...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Robert Lopez, who discusses his new novel  Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio. Topics of discussion include the American experience in 2023, dispatches and  Dispatches , whether Puerto Rico is a part of the United States in popular opinion, turning an insult into a word of power, tennis, the pledge of...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pushcart Prize winning author Bill Cotter, who discusses his new book  The Splendid Ticket , which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include the difference in writing books for children vs. writing books for adults, towns that the world has moved on from, gamblers, whether women tend to marry their fathers, the question...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Marjorie Hudson, who discusses her new novel  Indigo Field , which is published by our friends at Regal House Publishers.  Topics of conversation include the act of reading poetry to trees, giant clouds of pollen, recognized crabbiness, whether you can ever really know someone, witchcraft, foster children' rights, and much more.  Co...

On this week's Bookin', host Jason Jefferies is joined by Origins Hall of Famer and one of Pyramid's most influential people of the millennium, and co-creator of the Dragonlance saga Margaret Weis, who discusses her latest novel  Dragons of Decei t, which is published by our friends at Del Rey.  Topics of conversation include the growth of the fantasy genre, the popularity of D&D in the Stranger T...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by multi-platinum record producer and cognitive neuroscientist Susan Rogers, who discusses her new book  This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You , which is published by our friends at Norton.  Topics of discussion include seeing Led Zeppelin in concert, producing Prince, jamming with Miles Davis, record pulls and Listmas, Bach v...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Courtney Zoffness, who discusses her new book Spilt Milk , which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include memoirs, parental advice, anxiety, "Hot for Teacher", ownership of one's body, organized religion, Roe v Wade, raising a boy in the current political climate, truth vs. fantasy, and much more....

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Louise Willder, author of  Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion , which is published by our friends at OneWorld.  Topics of conversation include T.S. Eliot, snowflakes, unfortunate titles that were left on the cutting room floor, bookselling during COVID-19, Stephen King as an underrated writer, Nicole Krauss, book cover trends, and much...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jody Rosen, author of  Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle , which is published by our friends at Crown.  Topics of discussion include bicycling in the COVID-era, space travel, traveling vs. being traveled, women's emancipation movements throughout the world, bicycle pornography, e-bikes, climate change, bicycling in the winter, and...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Oregon Book Award winner and Emmy nominee Jon Raymond, who discusses his new book  Denial , which is published by our friends at Simon and Schuster.  Topics of conversation include Portland's Literary Arts, the climate crisis, whether every revolution is destined to become a bureaucracy, the future of newspapers, beef and factory farming, bookstores in...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Kevin Maloney, author of  The Red-Headed Pilgrim , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include the line between fact and fiction, the fear of routine in adulthood, virginity and sex, Howl, Robotussin-induced spirit journeys, Pearl Jam vs. Sufjan Stevens, wanderlust, and much more.  Copies of  The Red-Headed Pil...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Dan Chaon, who discusses his latest novel  Sleepwalk , which is published by Henry Holt and Co.  Topics of conversation include unreliable narrators, Hunter S. Thompson, aliases, burner phones and the desire to be untraceable, eccentric billionaires who start cultish non-profits, sperm banks, what amnesia would look like if it were...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by William MacAskill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and author of  What We Owe the Future , which is published by our friends at Basic Books.  Topics of discussion include thought experiments, longtermism, clean energy, climate change, artificial intelligence, professional gambling, Roe vs....

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow, MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award winning author Andrea Barrett, who discusses her new short story collection  Natural History , which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton and Company.  Topics of discussion include preparing to write a novel vs. a short story collection, whether you can judge a book by its cov...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Danny Ramadan, author of  The Foghorn Echoes , which is published by our friends at Canongate.  Topics of conversation include growing up as a gay man in Syria, thoughts and prayers, military indoctrination, the perception of the American military in Syria, literary ghost stories, parental shaming, Randy Orton, video games as art, and much more.  Copies...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Silas House, who discusses his new novel  Lark, Ascending , which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of discussion include "With or Without You", maritime novels, the Trump-era, fundamentalists, dual-citizenship, Ireland, climate fiction, dogs, beliefs, and much more.  Copies of  Lark...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Edgar Award-winning author and host of The Moth George Dawes Green, who discusses his new novel  The Kingdoms of Savannah , which is published by our friends at Celadon Books.  Topics of discussion include Savannah as a fairy-tale city, Omar from The Wire, mothers, Southern facades, slumlords, Thomas Wolfe, support for independent bookstores, and much m...