Bookin’

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.   

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.   

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.

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.