Episodes
5 days ago
284--Bookin' w/ Jeffrey D. Simon
5 days ago
5 days ago
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 celebrity detective, crime fiction, Eliot Ness, Al Capone, and much more. Copies of The Bulldog Detective can be purchased here from Page 158 Books.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
283--Bookin' w/ Cally Fiedorek
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
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), and much more. Copies of Atta Boy can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
282--Bookin' w/ Georgann Eubanks
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
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 Hendrix, writing in North Carolina, and much more. Copies of Song Keepers can be ordered from Page 158 Books and the No Depression website.
Monday Mar 25, 2024
281--Bookin' w/Daniel Wallace
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
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, cartooning, North Carolina vs. Alabama, Walker Percy and James Joyce, writing as a cathartic exercise, and much more. Copies of This Isn't Going to End Well can be purchased here or downloaded from Libro.fm for FREE with the promo code BOOKIN (new members only).
Monday Mar 18, 2024
280--Pale Fire Podcast w/ Dan Hawkins
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
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 problems, Hopscotch, and much more. Copies of Pale Fire can be purchased here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival for presenting this episode.
Monday Mar 11, 2024
279--Bookin' w/ Katya Apekina
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
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 education, and much more. Copies of Mother Doll can be ordered here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and libro.fm audiobooks for presenting this episode.
Monday Mar 04, 2024
278--Bookin' w/ Andy Lee Roth
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
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, sensationalism, news deserts, muckraking, and much more. Copies of Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024 can be purchased from your favorite independent bookstore. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and libro.fm audiobooks for presenting this episode.
Monday Feb 26, 2024
277--Bookin' w/ Roger D. Rapoport
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
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 years, and much more. Copies of Searching for Patty Hearst can be purchased here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and Libro.fm for presenting this episode.
Monday Feb 19, 2024
276--Bookin' w/ Brian Allen Carr
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
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, and much more. Copies of Bad Foundations can be purchased here.
Monday Feb 12, 2024
275--Bookin' w/ Zachary Pace
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
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 more. Copies of I Sing to Use the Waiting can be ordered here from Page 158 Books is Wake Forest, NC. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival for presenting this episode.