Bookin’

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.

181--Bookin’ w/ Sean Thor Conroe

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.  

180--Bookin’ w/ Mike Florio

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 published by our friends at PublicAffairs.  Topics of conversation include fantasy football, Tom Brady, the NFL Draft, franchise quarterbacks, whether Roger Goodell is a good commissioner and much more.  Copies of Playmakers can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

 

179--Bookin’ w/ Tochi Onyebuchi

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, cigarettes, Cormac McCarthy, and much more.  Copies of Goliath can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

178--Bookin’ w/ Emily St. John Mandel

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 simulation, the Mandela effect, pandemic novels, and much more.  Signed copies of Sea of Tranquility can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING (while supplies last).