Bookin’

157--Bookin‘ w/Sean Avery Medlin

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sean Avery Medlin, author of 808s & Otherworlds, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include Hades, the 808 drum machine, Erykah Badu, Arizona, the Trickster, BET, Kanye West and Donald Trump, and much more.  Copies of 808s & Otherworlds can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

156--Bookin‘ w/ Daniel Levin Becker

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Daniel Levin Becker, Senior Editor at McSweeney's and editor of Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, which is published, of course, by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include the reasons why people write and read, shoring oneself against oblivion, a hissing armadillo named Andrew Jackson, raccoons, chicken nuggets, Michael Crichton, writing economically, Hanif Abdurraqib, and much more.  Copies of Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

155--Bookin‘ w/ Reid Forgrave

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Reid Forgrave, author of Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books.  Topics of conversation include what football means to America, guns, when football passed baseball as the most popular sport in America, CTE and concussions, whether professional football is sustainable or not, sports books, Ray "Voodoo" Tatum, and much more.  Copies of Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

154--Bookin‘ w/ Amy Koppelman

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Amy Koppelman, author of A Mouthful of Air, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include adapting a novel into a screenplay, Indie bookstores, Barnes & Noble and Amazon, postpartum depression, Kurt Cobain and David Foster Wallace, anti-depressants, Roe vs. Wade, breastfeeding, organic cookies, and much more.  Copies of A Mouthful of Air can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

153--Bookin‘ w/ Mike DeCapite

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mike DeCapite, author of Jacket Weather, which is published by our friends at Soft Skull Press.  Topics of conversation include Lou Reed, Spotify Playlists, the Manhattan Bridge, Ray Barretto, acid, Lez Zeppelin, "Don't Stop Believin'" and The Sopranos, solitude, Hot Tuna, The Rolling Stones, and more.  Copies of Jacket Weather can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

152--Bookin‘ w/ Wiley Cash

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home, which is published by our friends at William Morrow.  Topics of conversation include independent bookstores, ghost stories, The Andy Griffith Show, writing about technology, the confederate flag, racism, the Pterodactyl Club, the New York Times Book Review, and much more.  Copies of When Ghosts Come Home can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.   

151--Bookin‘ w/ Joe Posnanski

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times-bestselling author Joe Posnanski, who discusses his new book The Baseball 100, which is published by our friends at Avid Reader Press.  Topics of discussion include falling in love with baseball, Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani, statistics that are not recorded, Ozzie Smith, Bullet Rogan, Mad Max Scherzer and the Los Angeles Dodgers, whether 'catcher' is the most important and complex position in baseball, GOAT sports books, fathers and sons, baseball cards, the importance of steering ones loved ones away from Orioles fandom, Barry Bonds and steroids, Buster Posey, and much more.  Copies of The Baseball 100 can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

150--Bookin‘ w/ Richard Powers

For our 150th episode, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, and New York Times bestselling author Richard Powers, who discusses his new novel Bewilderment, which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton & Company.  Topics of discussion include medicating children, Physics vs. English, the search for life in outer space, video games, William T. Vollmann, Buddhism, the idea that we are living in a simulation, homeschooling, and much more.  Copies of Bewilderment can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

149--Bookin‘ w/Eric Powell and Harold Schecter

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Eric Powell and Harold Schecter, authors of Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, which is published by our friends at Albatross Funny Books.  Topics of conversation include David Fincher and Mike Mignola, the Milwaukee Bucks, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, how a pirate story is different from a bible story, religious fanaticism, at what age kids may realize something is wrong with their parents, and much more.  Copies of Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

148--Bookin‘ w/ Cadwell Turnbull

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award winning author Cadwell Turnbull, who discusses his fantastic new novel No Gods, No Monsters, which is published by our friends at Blackstone Publishing.  Topics of discussion include books set in Raleigh, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, bookstores, eternal return, werewolves, police shootings, comic books, and much more.  Copies of No Gods, No Monsters can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.