Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Alexandra Lange, author of  Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall , which is published by our friends at Bloomsbury.  Topics of discussion include COVID-19's effect on shopping malls, the American Dream, the shopping mall as a public gathering space, arcades, Sweet Valley High, Stranger Things, repurposing mall buildings, and m...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author and Bookin' favorite Therese Anne Fowler, who discusses her new novel  It All Comes Down To This , which is published by our friends at St. Martin's Press.  Topics of conversation include jumping genres, the Fowlerverse, observing human nature, the New York Mets, knowing your time is coming vs. not knowing, cell phone z...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Dan Grunfeld, former professional basketball player and author of  By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream , which is published by our friends at Triumph Books.  Topics of discussion include Holocaust awareness, Ray Allen, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird (and Kareem Abdul Jabbar), growing up in the...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jarred McGinnis, author of  The Coward , which is published by our friends at Canongate Books.  Topics of discussion include Artificial Intelligence, wheelchairs, the distance between fiction and memoir, advice, dealing with problematic family members, dreams, Zola, Ibsen, Tolstoy and the Lived Novel, James Frey, World War III, and much more.  Copies of...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Paige Clarke, author of  She is Haunted , which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include PhDs, Two Dollar Radio, kids, God as a character, Rumpelstiltskin, value systems, favorite words (geriatric vs. abomination vs. bloom), internet-driven obsessions, redactions, and much more.  Copies of  She is Haunted can be pur...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Chris Bohjalian, who discusses his new novel  The Lioness , which is published by our friends at Doubleday.  Topics of discussion include Orson Welles, how the majestic becomes mundane, formatting a novel, pop-up civilizations, mother-daughter relationships, Russia, retirement, showing vs. telling, and much more.  Co...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Landis Wade, host of the Charlotte Readers Podcast and author of  Deadly Declarations , which is published by our friends at Lystra Books and Literary Services.  Topics of conversation include Charlotte's literary history, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, George Washington, insomnia, book collections, John Grisham, what it means to be a "New...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sean Thor Conroe, author of  Fuccboi , which is published by our friends at Little, Brown.  Topics of conversation include the line between fiction and memoir, slang, Scott McClanahan, The Wire, Roberto Bolaño, Lil B, wokeness, the politicization of art, and much more.  Copies of  Fuccboi can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mike Florio, creator and owner, along with NBC Sports, of profootballtalk.com , a leading NFL news organization.  He hosts two daily shows on Peacock and Sirius XM, PFT Live and PFTPM.  During the football season, he also appears weekly on the Sunday Night Football broadcast.  His new book is Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (and Doesn’t) , which is...

This week's Bookin' features Ilube Nommo Award, New England Book Award, and Alex Award winning author Tochi Onyebuchi, who discusses his new novel  Goliath , which is published by our friends at Tordotcom.  Topics of discussion include Economic Law, writing for young adults vs not so young adults, gangs, Connecticut novels, space exploration and global warming,  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , ci...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, who discusses her new book  Sea of Tranquility , which is published by our friends at Knopf.  Topics of discussion include book tour interviews, time travelers, science-fiction vs. literary fiction, exile, whether a house can be haunted by failure, writing about the senses, life as a computer simu...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of  How Strange a Season , which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of discussion include life in Vermont, family in North Carolina and growing up in the South, people who talk like they mean it, bossiness, estranged husbands, living in a glass house, wife days, the word "crazy", Alaska cold vs. Vermont cold, j...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism program at Wake Forest University and author of  Beyond Innocence:The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt , which is published by our friends at Atlantic Monthly Press.  Topics of discussion include Darryl Hunt serving a sentence in prison for a murder he did not commit, Debbie Sykes, North Carolina as a training grou...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Carissa Véliz, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.  Her new book is Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data , which is published by our friends at Melville House Publishing.  Topics of conversation include the surveillance economy,  1984 , what n...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi, who discusses her new book  Read Dangerously , which is published by our friends at Dey St.  Topics of conversation include how America is like the Islamic Republic, the harassment of poets and writers in Iran, whether we are living in a post-Trump era,  Maus  and banned books, Salman Rush...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pat Pickens, author of  The Whalers: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Mystique of New England's (Second) Greatest NHL Franchise , which is published by our friends at Lyons Press.  Topics of conversation include the heartache of losing a favorite team, the resurgence of the Whalers brand, "Brass Bonanza", hockey as a welcoming sport for fans and journalists...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Laura Shin, host of the  Unchained podcast and author of  The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze , which is published by our friends at Public Affairs.  Topics of conversation include Bitcoin, Ethereum, why the concept of cryptocurrencies are hard for some people to grasp, Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik B...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, who discusses her new book  The Last House on the Street , which is published by our friends at St. Martin's Press.  Topics of discussion include the Voting Rights Act, SCOPE, northern agitators, North Carolina and the Deep South, the KKK, two-faced public citizens, the way forward for the United Stat...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sasha Fletcher, author of  Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World , which is published by our friends at Melville House.  Topics of conversation include how cold it has to be outside to excrete billionaires in the street, the lengths one must go to in order to collect on one's invoices, scaremongering re: nuclear missile attacks, what it means to be...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Paul Cantor, author of  Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller , which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of discussion include the drive to succeed, car crashes, fame and the aversion to fame, Ariana Grande, Kurt Cobain, Dale and Andrew Carnegie, a "dependable middle class existence", Mac Miller as a "Jewish rapper", whether...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mesha Maren, author of  Perpetual West , which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include traveling in the COVID-era, Roberto Bolaño, literary allusions in works of literature, the idea of originality, stalking Cormac McCarthy, Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Lucha Libre wrestling, how wrestling is like a p...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Sanchez, author of  All Day Is A Long Time , which is published by our friends at Harper.  Topics of conversation include working construction during COVID-19, the line between memoir and fiction, compartmentalization, first-person vs. second-person narrative, the science of drug use, hyper-literary fiction, time loops, and much more.  Copies of ...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Jon Peterson, who discusses his newest book  Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons , which is published by our friends at MIT Press.  Topics of discussion include playing D&D while COVID-19 runs amok, Gary Gygax and the formation of TSR, Lake Geneva, the business model of selling rule books vs. more tradi...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Cara Blue Adams, author of  You Never Get It Back , which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include teaching creative writing, Marilynne Robinson, Arizona, the personification of loss, Kafka, novels vs. linked story collections, Y2K, Vermont, Dante, Hemingway and abortion, and much more.  Copies of  You Nev...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Karen Tucker, author of  Bewilderness , which is published by our friends at Catapult.  Topics of discussion include teaching at the University of North Carolina in 2021, scraping more out of life than most, trust, a 30mg moon, the record number of reported drug overdoses in the USA in 2021, Charlotte vs. Atlanta, addiction, Reddit and censorship, and m...