Bookin’

225--Bookin’ w/ Susan Rogers

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 vs. The Shaggs, what happens in a person's mind when they listen to music, how DAWs changed music production, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the novel popularity curve, the question of art vs. the artist, and much more.  Copies of This Is What It Sounds Like can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

224--Bookin’ w/ Courtney Zoffness

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.  Copies of Spilt Milk can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

223--Bookin’ w/ Louise Willder

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 more.  Copies of Blurb Your Enthusiasm can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

222--Bookin’ w/ Jody Rosen

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 much more.  Copies of Two Wheels Good can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

221--Bookin’ w/ Jon Raymond

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 2052, Mark Twain, Diego Rivera, and much more.  Copies of Denial can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

220--Bookin’ w/ Kevin Maloney

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 Pilgrim can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for member of Explore More+.  

219--Bookin’ w/ Dan Chaon

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 a country, QAnon, and much more.  Copies of Sleepwalk can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.    

218--Bookin’ w/ William MacAskill

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. Wade, value lock-in, technological stagnation, and much more.  Copies of What We Owe the Future can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

217--Bookin’ w/ Andrea Barrett

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 cover or not, color in literature, History, weather balloons in the Civil War, the role of butterflies and moths in literature, scissors, and much more.  Copies of Natural History can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

216--Bookin’ w/ Danny Ramadan

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 of The Foghorn Echoes can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.