Bookin’

177--Bookin’ w/ Megan Mayhew Bergman

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of How Strange a Season, which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of discussion include life in Vermont, family in North Carolina and growing up in the South, people who talk like they mean it, bossiness, estranged husbands, living in a glass house, wife days, the word "crazy", Alaska cold vs. Vermont cold, jazz and the medium of the album, and much more.  Signed copies of How Strange a Season can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

176--Bookin’ w/ Phoebe Zerwick

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism program at Wake Forest University and author of Beyond Innocence:The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt, which is published by our friends at Atlantic Monthly Press.  Topics of discussion include Darryl Hunt serving a sentence in prison for a murder he did not commit, Debbie Sykes, North Carolina as a training ground for journalism, writing about smoking in a tobacco town, the confederate flag, innocent people on death row, the exponential growth of the imprisonment of black people in the USA, reintegration for the formerly incarcerated, and much more.  Copies of Beyond Innocence can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

175--Bookin’ w/ Carissa Véliz

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Carissa Véliz, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.  Her new book is Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, which is published by our friends at Melville House Publishing.  Topics of conversation include the surveillance economy, 1984, what nefarious purposes our data is being used for, smart TVs, what happens when you look at your phone first thing in the morning, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, crises, whether kids will end up suing their parents over Facebook posts, what we can do to take power over our data back, and much more.  copies of Privacy is Power can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

174--Bookin’ w/ Azar Nafisi

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi, who discusses her new book Read Dangerously, which is published by our friends at Dey St.  Topics of conversation include how America is like the Islamic Republic, the harassment of poets and writers in Iran, whether we are living in a post-Trump era, Maus and banned books, Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses, Fahrenheit 451, Plato's Republic, To the End of the Land by David Grossman, and much more.  Copies of Read Dangerously can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

173--Bookin’ w/ Pat Pickens

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pat Pickens, author of The Whalers: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Mystique of New England's (Second) Greatest NHL Franchise, which is published by our friends at Lyons Press.  Topics of conversation include the heartache of losing a favorite team, the resurgence of the Whalers brand, "Brass Bonanza", hockey as a welcoming sport for fans and journalists, Ron Francis, whether the Whalers needed to move to North Carolina to win a Stanley Cup, whether the NHL will ever return to Hartford, and much more.  Copies of The Whalers can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

172--Bookin’ w/ Laura Shin

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Laura Shin, host of the Unchained podcast and author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, which is published by our friends at Public Affairs.  Topics of conversation include Bitcoin, Ethereum, why the concept of cryptocurrencies are hard for some people to grasp, Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson and Cardano, currency vs. store of value, JP Morgan, C3PO, privacy, and much more.  Signed copies (bookplates) of The Cryptopians can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

171--Bookin’ w/ Diane Chamberlain

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, who discusses her new book The Last House on the Street, which is published by our friends at St. Martin's Press.  Topics of discussion include the Voting Rights Act, SCOPE, northern agitators, North Carolina and the Deep South, the KKK, two-faced public citizens, the way forward for the United States in 2022, and much more!  Signed copies of The Last House on the Street can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

170--Bookin’ w/ Sasha Fletcher

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sasha Fletcher, author of Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, which is published by our friends at Melville House.  Topics of conversation include how cold it has to be outside to excrete billionaires in the street, the lengths one must go to in order to collect on one's invoices, scaremongering re: nuclear missile attacks, what it means to be President, police, angels, and much more.  Copies of Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

169--Bookin’ w/ Paul Cantor

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Paul Cantor, author of Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of discussion include the drive to succeed, car crashes, fame and the aversion to fame, Ariana Grande, Kurt Cobain, Dale and Andrew Carnegie, a "dependable middle class existence", Mac Miller as a "Jewish rapper", whether or not Bob Dylan is a rockstar, Outkast's Aquemeni, whether we will be listening to Mac Miller in twenty years, and much more.  Copies of Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

168--Bookin’ w/ Mesha Maren

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mesha Maren, author of Perpetual West, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include traveling in the COVID-era, Roberto Bolaño, literary allusions in works of literature, the idea of originality, stalking Cormac McCarthy, Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Lucha Libre wrestling, how wrestling is like a presidential election, and much more.  Copies of Perpetual West can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.