Bookin’

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+.

137--Bookin' w/ Gina Nutt

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Gina Nutt, author of Night Rooms, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include using horror films as a framing device for life experiences, whether Titanic is a horror film, the shifting of the public perception of sharks between Jaws and Sharknado, beauty pageants, home buying courses, and much more. Signed copies of Night Rooms can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.

136--Bookin' w/ Rosecrans Baldwin

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Rosecrans Baldwin, author Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles, which is published by our friends at FSG.  Topics of discussion include The Morning News, whether or not one would choose to watch a movie called Revenge City, The Arcades Project, M.I.T.T., cults, secession, Octavia Butler, and much more.  Copies of Everything Now can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.  

135--Bookin' w/ Jonathan Ames

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll, which is published by our friends at Mulholland Books.  Topics of discussion include eating fish with Veganaise, sadistic-daddy books with a military angle, the difference in writing a novel versus writing for television, police-related violence, payphones, drugs, deep Googling, and much more.  Copies of A Man Named Doll can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.  

134--Bookin' w/ Kristen Arnett

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth, which is published by our friends at Riverhead Books.  Topics of discussion include parenting with a sense of helplessness, othering, being a queer and out parent in Florida, PE clothes that smell like dead feet, Walt Disney World, hearing your favorite music on insurance commercials, and much more.  Copies of With Teeth can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.   

133--Bookin' w/ Viet Thanh Nguyen

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, and most recently, The Committed, which is published by our friends at Grove Press.  Topics of discussion include what it means to be American in 2021, mutants, Hollywood propaganda and Vietnam, how America is like Coca-Cola, tie-dyed t-shirts, whether belief in Capitalism or Communism necessitates extremism, blood oaths, colonization, and much more.  Copies of The Committed can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+. 

132--Bookin' w/ Jim Shepard

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by PEN New England and Story Prize-winning author Jim Shepard, who discusses his newest book Phase Six, which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of discussion include pandemic novels, environmental catastrophes, why we don't listen to scientists, John Snow, and much more.  Copies of Phase Six can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.