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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jeff Wagner, author of  Destination Onward: The Story of Fates Warning , which is published by our friends at FYI Press.  Topics of conversation include buying records in the pre-Napster/streaming-era, Fates Warning, living a life defined by music fandom, the plight of the Native American, progressive metal, Radiohead, England's influence on popular mus...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Scott Gates, author of  Gone, the Redeemer , which is published by our friends at Blue Ink Press.  Topics of conversation include Page 158 Books, sunsets, Cuban history, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Oprah Winfrey,  A Picture of Dorian Gray , Colorado, and much more.  Copies of  Gone, the Redeemer  can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for member...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ray Robertson, author of  Estates Large and Small , which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include Biblioasis, the Grateful Dead, Hunterisms, virtual bookstores, leadership in the COVID-era, the used book business, the value of literary fiction in contemporary society, impersonations, and much more.  Copies of  Estates...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary literary icon Michael Parker, author of  I Am the Light of This World , which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include Randall Kenan, Chris Stamey, pawn shop guitars, clotheslines, Leadbelly, turnstiles, the word "world", differing perceptions of sexuality, drugs and alcohol, and much more....

This week, Host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bookin' favorite Alex Pugsley, author of  Shimmer , which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include the James Joyce of Canada, 7-11, flip-phones, the Friends drinking game, pornography, Marlboro Ultra Lights, Courtney Love, guitar tablature, and much more.  Copies of  Shimmer  can be ordered here .  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author B.A. Shapiro, author of  Metropolis , which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include self-storage units, the process of writing multiple protagonists, research, artistic mediums, street photography, writing what you know vs. writing what you don't know, embezzlement,...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ellyn Gaydos, author of  Pig Years , which is published by our friends at Knopf.  Topics of conversation include writing about pigs, growing up in Vermont, small farms vs. factory farms, snakes on the bathroom floor, consuming pig hearts, acts of desecration, stock car speedways, global warming, and much more.  Copies of  Pig Years  can be purchased her...

This week, Host Jason Jefferies is joined by Davey Davis, author of  X , which is published by our friends at Catapult.  Topics of conversation include Roe v. Wade, waterboarding, Abu Ghraib, Matt Riedl, whether sexiness is political, small talk about climate change, practiced dishonesty, bodily confusion, whether change is ever really possible, and much more.  Copies of  X  can be purchased here...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Lydia Millet, author of  Dinosaurs , which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton and Co.  Topics of conversation include books that take place in Arizona, short novels, Batman, new places vs. old places, A Children's Bible and climate change legislation, glass houses, basketball & skateboarding, Fox News & Football, dinosaurs, and much more.  Copie...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Timothy C. Baker, author of  Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories , which is published by our friends at Goldsmiths Press.  Topics of conversation include Babar the elephant, Baltimore, Ronald Reagan, animal industries, Frog & Toad, The Lord of the Rings vs. Chronicles of Narnia, Watership Down, and much more.  Copies of  Reading...

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes Victoria Shepherd, author of  A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband, and a Walking Corpse , which is published by our friends at Oneworld.  Topics of discussion include the difference between a fairy tale and a delusion, QAnon, paranoid schizophrenia, the connection between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Edgar Allen Poe, melancholy, the idea t...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Lara Williams, author of The Odyssey , which is published by our friends at Zando Projects.  Topics of discussion include The Odyssey as a title, wabi sabi, cruise ships, David Foster Wallace, boredom/inertia, oblivion, infantilization, scientology, designing your own money, shopping malls, and much more.  Copies of  The Odyssey can be ordered here from...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Christy Alexander Hallberg, author of  Searching for Jimmy Page , which is published by our friends at Livingston Press.  Topics of discussion include Led Zeppelin as a rite of passage, Four Sticks, omens, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant's sandwich, Hammer of the Gods, Liv Tyler, and much more.  Copies of  Searching for Jimmy Page...

Welcome to Bookin's 200th Episode!  Host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary award-winning author John Kessel, who discusses his newest collection  The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel , which is published by our friends at Subterranean Press.  Topics of discussion includes the literary scene in North Carolina, Kim Stanley Robinson, birth, education, genre writing vs. non-genre...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Internationally bestselling author Corban Addison, who discusses his new book  Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country On Trial , which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of discussion include John Grisham, narrative non-fiction, the silencing of Smithfield Food's employees and lawyers, what is wrong with NC politicians, hog grow...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Peter C. Baker, author of  Planes , which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of conversation include shops with regulars, cooking for pleasure vs. cooking by necessity, compulsive gossip, people who are overwhelmed by surprises, redactions, whether a coffee habit is a path to financial ruin, and much more.  Copies of  Planes  can be...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden , which is published by our friends at Tor.com.  Topics of conversation include unsolicited advice, climate catastrophe, first-contact scenarios, alien races the look like spiders, children, diplomatic relations, the influence of media on human development, space colonization, and much more.  Copies of A Hal...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz, author of  Here Goes Nothing , which is published by our friends at Melville House.  Topics of conversation include worrying about other people's perceptions, the desire to be invisible, vegetarians who eat fish, the afterlife, fake smiles, newlyweds, Satanists, and much more.  Copies of Here Goes Nothing  can be order...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Gabino Iglesias, author of  The Devil Takes You Home , which is published by our friends at Mulholland Books.  Topics of conversation include Austin murderous tendencies, what an accent signals in media, waking dreams vs. daydreams, patience, genre fiction vs. literary fiction, cartels, El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, Cormac McCarthy, violence, and much more.  C...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Matthew Ball, author of  The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything , which is published by our friends at Liveright Publishing Company.  Topics of conversation include Vannevar Bush, Walter Benjamin, Neal Stephenson, Satoshi Nakamoto, video games, Netflix and other streaming technologies, the metaverse vs. metaverses, Mark Zuckerburg, and...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Isaac Fitzgerald, author of  Dirtbag, Massachusetts , which is published by our friends at Bloomsbury. Topics of discussion include McSweeney's, happy accidents vs. sin, whether it is possible to read too many books, baseball, a child's perspective on financial security, books as religion, whether a parent should be their child's friend, shady priests,...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Shelly Oria, editor of  I Know What's Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom , which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Margaret Atwood and  The Handmaid's Tale , anti-abortion abortion clinics, Roe v. Wade, baby formula, aggression within the context of oppression, optimism, and much...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Dave Pell, author of  Please Scream Inside your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End , which is published by our friends at Hachette.  Topics of discussion include 826 Valencia, Japanese amusement parks, Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, Jeopardy vs. Wheel of Fortune, the royal family, "Do as I say not as I do", binders fu...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shipstead, who discusses her new book  You Have a Friend in 10A , which is published by our friends at Knopf.  Topics of discussion include Willie Nelson, ski resorts, when fictional animals die, men of great patience, creative writing workshops, unreliable narrators, the elusive nature of truth, Scientology, Elo...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Mirin Fader, who discusses her latest book  Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP , which is published by our friends at Hachette Books.  Topics of conversation include NBA championships, evictions, the financial crisis of 2008, the desire to win, narrating an audiobook, NBA coach Jason Kidd, and much more.  Copies...