Bookin’

197--Bookin’ w/ Ruthanna Emrys

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 Half-Built Garden can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers!  

196--Bookin’ w/ Steve Toltz

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 ordered here from Explore Booksellers!  THIS PODCAST FEATURES EXPLICIT CONTENT.

195--Bookin’ w/ Gabino Iglesias

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.  Copies of The Devil Takes You Home can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.  

194--Bookin’ w/ Matthew Ball

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 much more.  Copies of The Metaverse can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.

193--Bookin’ w/ Isaac Fitzgerald

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, and much more.  Copies of Dirtbag, Massachusetts can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.

192--Bookin’ w/ Shelly Oria

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 more.  Copies of I Know What's Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.

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.