Bookin’

191--Bookin’ w/ Dave Pell

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 full of women, and much more.  Copies of Please Scream Inside your Heart can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.

190--Bookin’ w/ Maggie Shipstead

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, Elon Musk, and much more.  Copies of You Have a Friend in 10A can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers, Aspen's legendary independent community bookstore.

189--Bookin’ w/ Mirin Fader

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 of Giannis can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.

188--Bookin’ w/ Alexandra Lange

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 much more.  Copies of Meet Me By The Fountain can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

187--Bookin’ w/ Therese Anne Fowler

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 zombies, New York train stations vs. Swiss train stations, Southern Authors, and more.  Signed copies of It All Comes Down To This can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING!

186--Bookin’ w/ Dan Grunfeld

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 NBA, concentration camps, and much more.  Copies of By the Grace of the Game can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

185--Bookin’ w/ Jarred McGinnis

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 The Coward can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

184--Bookin’ w/ Paige Clarke

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 purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

183--Bookin’ w/ Chris Bohjalian

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.  Copies of The Lioness can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

182--Bookin’ w/ Landis Wade

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 South" city, and much more.  Signed copies of Deadly Declarations can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.