Bookin’

111--Bookin' w/ John Grisham

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author John Grisham, who discusses his latest novel A Time For Mercy, which is published by our friends at Doubleday.  Topics of discussion include 1984, the political climate in Mississippi in 1990, police brutality, church, race, how elections effect our actions, Roe vs. Wade, caring too much about what other people think, and much more.  Copies of A Time For Mercy can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

110--Bookin' w/ Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Morning Star Award winning author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, who discusses her novel Even As We Breathe, which is published by Fireside Industries (an imprint of the University Press of Kentucky).  Topics of discussion include the importance of place and ceremony, James Joyce as "the devil's whisperer", a monkey named after Edgar Allen Poe, working for "someone else's pocket change", the Grove Park Inn, Japanese internment camps, Asheville as a jazz city, and much more.  Copies of Even As We Breathe can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

109--Bookin' with Travis Hoewischer

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Travis Hoewischer, author of Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby: Chad, Brad, Brandi with an "i," and other names to reconsider, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics discussed include problems with the name Keith, babies rights in regards to photo publication and social media postings by parents, Alpha and other names inspired by American Gladiator, the issue with naming your child LeBron or Michael (if one's last name happens to be Jordan), "Classic Lightman", the big decisions that must be made after a 311 concert cruise, Desert Storm trading cards, and much more.  Copies of Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

108--Bookin' w/ Jeff Tweedy

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Wilco frontman, Grammy Award winning musician and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, who discusses his new book How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back, which is published by our friends at Dutton (an imprint of Penguin Random House). Topics discussed include the act of putting positivity into the world, unburdening oneself of judgement, being versus doing, losing oneself in the act of artistic creation, time, writing as someone other than yourself, channeling Johnny Cash, developing persistence in the face of hardship as a habit, and much more. Copies of How to Write One Song can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING. 

107--Bookin' w/ M. Randal O'Wain

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bookin' favorite M. Randal O'Wain, who discusses his newest book Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, which is published by our friends at Autumn House.  Topics of discussion include how touring for a book compares to touring as a band, how book promotion has changed during the COVID-era, river literature, the drug trade, organized religion, revenge porn, noir, redemption arcs, and much more.  Copies of Hallelujah Station and Other Stories can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

106--Bookin' w/ Lee Smith

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Lee Smith, who discusses her latest novel Blue Marlin, which is published by our friends at Blair.  Topics of discussion include the inclination to compare "real life" and "celebrity life", the idea that one can live for Art (with a capital A),  things that "certainly aren't southern", moonlighting as a spy, geographical cures, and much more.  Copies of Blue Marlin can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

105--Bookin' w/ Chuck Klosterman

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman, who discusses his latest book Raised in Captivity, which is published by our friends at Penguin Press.  Topics of discussion include the NBA bubble (this podcast was recorded before the conclusion of the 2019-2020 NBA season), deaths in grunge rock, a puma in an airplane bathroom, a philosopher coaching high school football, the placement of the serial killer in pop culture, whiteness, being fake woke, and much more.  Copies of Raised in Captivity can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

104--Bookin' w/ Annabel Abbs

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Annabel Abbs, winner of the Impress Prize for New Writing and the Spotlight First Novel Award.  Annabel discusses her novel The Joyce Girl, which was published in the UK in 2015, and is being published in the USA for the first time in 2020 by our friends at William Morrow.  Topics of discussion include Lucia Joyce, what it is like putting words in James Joyce's mouth, trends in the first lines of novels, Carl Jung, Ulysses as a work of pornography, D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's Lover, and much more. Copies of The Joyce Girl can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

103--Bookin' w/ Steven Hyden

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Steven Hyden, author of Your Favorite Band is Killing Me and Twilight of the Gods.  His new book is This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century, which is published by our friends at Hachette Books.  Topics of conversation include MTV, Pablo Honey, target markets, The Bends, 9/11, OK Computer, Bush vs. Gore, Kid A and Amnesiac, the Berenstein timeline, Hail to the Thief, Napster, In Rainbows, the medium as the message, A Moon Shaped Pool, and much more.  Copies of This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING. 

102--Bookin' w/ Eula Biss

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Eula Biss, who discusses her new book Having and Being Had, which is published by our friends at Riverhead Books.  Topics of discussion include having money to spend but finding nothing worth buying, the concept of value, IKEA and the desire for disposable furniture, home ownership as a game, Wal-Mart, credit, work vs. labor and much more.  Copies of Having and Being Had can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.