Bookin’

167--Bookin’ w/David Sanchez

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Sanchez, author of All Day Is A Long Time, which is published by our friends at Harper.  Topics of conversation include working construction during COVID-19, the line between memoir and fiction, compartmentalization, first-person vs. second-person narrative, the science of drug use, hyper-literary fiction, time loops, and much more.  Copies of All Day Is A Long Time can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

166--Bookin’ w/ Jon Peterson

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Jon Peterson, who discusses his newest book Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons, which is published by our friends at MIT Press.  Topics of discussion include playing D&D while COVID-19 runs amok, Gary Gygax and the formation of TSR, Lake Geneva, the business model of selling rule books vs. more traditionally packaged board games, fanzines, whether gigantic rulebooks are barriers to entry for the aspiring player of D&D, Dragonlance, Wizards of the Coast, and much more!  Copies of Game Wizards can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

165--Bookin’ w/ Cara Blue Adams

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Cara Blue Adams, author of You Never Get It Back, which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include teaching creative writing, Marilynne Robinson, Arizona, the personification of loss, Kafka, novels vs. linked story collections, Y2K, Vermont, Dante, Hemingway and abortion, and much more.  Copies of You Never Get It Back can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

164--Bookin‘ w/ Karen Tucker

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Karen Tucker, author of Bewilderness, which is published by our friends at Catapult.  Topics of discussion include teaching at the University of North Carolina in 2021, scraping more out of life than most, trust, a 30mg moon, the record number of reported drug overdoses in the USA in 2021, Charlotte vs. Atlanta, addiction, Reddit and censorship, and much more.  Copies of Bewilderness can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

163--Bookin‘ w/ Benjamin M. Friedman

For this special Christmas week episode, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Benjamin M. Friedman, the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy and former chair of the Department of Economics at Harvard University, who discusses his new book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of discussion include the perception that any challenge to a market-centered conduct of economic affairs is a fundamental threat to our lives, how economic thinking is rooted in religious thinking, belief in free markets, England's bishops as "Retainers to Superstition", why some low-income Americans don't want higher taxes on high-income Americans, how Adam Smith inspired Ronald Reagan, cryptocurrencies, and much more.  Copies of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

162--Bookin‘ w/ Jeremy B. Jones

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jeremy B. Jones, author of Bearwallow, which is published by our friends at Blair.  Topics of discussion include planning literary festivals during a pandemic, the life of a place, how ancestors can be like leprechauns, how entering a teacher's lounge is like being backstage at a concert, normal teacher behavior, bears, "the pull", the Civil War, and much more.  Copies of Bearwallow can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

161--Bookin‘ w/ Makiia Lucier

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Makiia Lucier, author of Year of the Reaper, which is published by our friends at Clarion Books.  Topics of discussion include plagues, ghosts, librarians, arranged marriages, religion (or lack thereof) during trying times, traveling by horse, lynx, Guam, and much more.  Copies of Year of the Reaper can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

160--Bookin‘ w/ Farah Ali

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Farah Ali, who discusses her new book People Want to Live, which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of discussion include shootings in the media, desensitization, whether parents can ever truly know their children, whether corporate news organizations are alarmist by nature, the evil eye, tourism, Dubliners and much more.  Copies of People Want to Live can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

159--Bookin‘ w/ Ed Southern

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ed Southern, Executive Director of the North Carolina Writers' Network and author of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South, which is published by our friends at Blair.  Topics of conversation include the North Carolina Writers' Network, the ACC tournament, Mark Cuban and the cancellation of an NBA season due to COVID-19, change, the Bookmarks Festival, whether you should marry an Alabama football fan, books about sports fandom, Wake Forest University football, Lou Holtz, Hanif Abdurraqib, and much more.  Signed copies of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.   

158--Bookin‘ w/ Jeffrey E. Garten

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Management, former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration, and a managing director of the Blackstone Group.  His new book is Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy, which is published by our friends at Harper.  Topics of conversation include the gold standard, a pinned dollar, the climate surrounding Nixon's presidency vs. Biden's presidency, the long term societal effects of a deemphasis on education, cryptocurrency, what the paper dollar is worth, and much more.  Copies of Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.