Bookin’

147--Bookin' w/ John Grisham

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author John Grisham, who discusses his newest book Sooley, which is published by our friends at Doubleday Books.  Topics of discussion include the ongoing crisis in Sudan, basketball novels, offense vs. defense, Manute Bol, ethnic conflict, technology and the lack thereof, and much more.  Copies of Sooley can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club Plus+.  

146--Bookin' w/ Alex Pheby

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Alex Pheby, winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and author of Lucia, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include Lucia and James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Egyptology, Harry Potter, fan fiction, the likelihood that current authors will be studied in one hundred years, and much more.  Copies of Lucia can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

145--Bookin' w/ Bela Koe-Krompecher

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bela Koe-Krompecher, founder of Anyway Records and author of love, death & photosynthesis, which is published by our friends at Don Giovanni Records.  Topics of conversation include Columbus, Ohio, punk rock, Mudhoney, time shifts, vinyl, the shifting retail landscape as it relates to record stores and bookstores, the Dead Milkmen, and so much more.  Copies of love, death & photosynthesis can be ordered from Quail Ridge Books with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.    

144--Bookin' w/ Tom Lin

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Tom Lin, author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, which is published by our friends at Little, Brown and Company.  Topics of discussion include writing a novel as a college student, the outlaw western persona, living a traceless life, railroads, dangerous memories, Cormac McCarthy, magical realism, and much more.  Copies of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club +.  

143--Bookin' w/ Martha Wells

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author and Hugo and Nebula award winner Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries, which is published by our friends at TOR dot com.  Topics of discussion include binging television series, how Murderbot doesn't actually do that much murdering, learned behaviors relative to television and other media, machine rights, video games as literary devices, and much more.  Copies of all of the books in the Murderbot Diaries, including the most recent novel Fugitive Telemetry, can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.  

142--Bookin' w Jason Mott

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, who discusses his newest novel Hell of a Book, which is published by our friends at Dutton Books.  Topics of conversation include Nicolas Cage, invisibility, bullying, meta-narratives, call center culture, naturalism, the militarization of police, and much more.  Copies of Hell of a Book can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

141--Bookin' w/ Andy Weir

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Andy Weir, who discusses his newest novel Project Hail Mary, which is published by our friends at Random House.  Topics of discussion include rum old-fashioneds, isolation in outer space (and during COVID-19), whether or not humanity would band together to help one another during a planetary catastrophe, why aliens might look like spiders, buddy stories, problems of communication during first contact, and much more.  Copies of Project Hail Mary can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.

140--Bookin' w/ John Freeman

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by John Freeman, editor of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, which is published by our friends at Penguin Press.  Topics of discussion include what "Modern" means, genre fiction, academia, The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker and Kamala Harris, Emergency by Denis Johnson, and much more.  Copies of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

139--Bookin' w/ Richard Thompson

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary guitar player and singer Richard Thompson, author of Beeswing, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of discussion include cover songs, a disregard for school, Les Paul, Lady Chatterley's Lover, the author as celebrity, spirituality, Jimi Hendrix, when you know a song needs to be retired, and much more.  Copies of Beeswing (with signed bookplates) can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.

138--Bookin' w/ Steven Petrow

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Steven Petrow, author of Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old, which is published by our friends at Citadel Press.  Topics of discussion include the pursuit of dreams, crowdsourcing, double-spacing after periods, preparing for a fall, ageism, "organ recitals", and much more.  Copies of Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.