Bookin’

101--Bookin' w/ Jeff Pearlman

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Football For a Buck, Gunslinger, and The Bad Guys Won.  His new book is Three Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Craziest Years of the Lakers Dynasty, which is published by our friends at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.  Topics of discussion include Kobe Bryant as a teenage millionaire vs. Kobe Bryant as a retired 5-time NBA champion, the "where were you when" moments of Kobe Bryant's death and Magic Johnson's HIV announcement, Connect Four, Kobe vs. LeBron, Kazaam! and Shaquille O'Neal's acting resumé, Cedric Ceballos, Rickey Henderson and athletes who refer to themselves in the third-person, Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson the author, and much more.  Copies of Three Ring Circus can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

100--Bookin' w/ Eric Obenauf

EPISODE 100!!!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Eric Obenauf, publisher and editor at Two Dollar Radio.  Eric and Jason discuss the Two Dollar Radio Guide to Vegan Cooking by Chef Jean-Claude van Randy and Chef Speed Dog (with Eric Obenauf).  Topics of discussion include this podcast's 100th episode, Columbus, Ohio as a hotbed for the literary arts, how Eric came to work with Chef van Randy and Chef Speed Dog, the Two Dollar Radio tattoo club, celebrities that refer to themselves in the third person, Twizzlers, whether or not veggies are a main dish, drum solos, and much more.  Copies of Two Dollar Radio Guide to Vegan Cooking (and all of Two Dollar Radio's other fantastic books) can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

099--Bookin' w/ David Menconi

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Menconi, author of Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, which is published by our friends at University of North Carolina Press.  Topics of discussion include Charlie Poole's inexcusable absence from the Country Music Hall of Fame, Durham, North Carolina's indifference to its own blues history, how Earl Scruggs was like Beethoven and Bach, Mitch Easter's responsibility for bringing David to North Carolina, The Squirrel Nut Zippers and Ben Folds Five as Chapel Hill's claim to fame in the era of grunge, 9th Wonder's production on Kendrick Lamar's DAMN, American Idol, and much more.  Signed copies of Step It Up and Go can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

098--Bookin' w/ Jill McCorkle

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jill McCorkle, winner of the Dos Passos Prize, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the New England Booksellers Award.  Her new novel is Hieroglyphics, which is published by our friends at Algonquin.  Topics of discussion include Carl Sandburg, the desire to return to the homes of our past, whether freedom from career obligations is a burden or a relief, memory loss, night terrors, communications received from the dead, and more.  Signed copies of Hieroglyphics can be ordered from Quail Ridge Books here with FREE SHIPPING.  

097--Bookin' w/ Chase Purdy

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Chase Purdy, author of Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food, which is published by our friends at Portfolio.  Topics of discussion include lab-grown meat, the correlation between animal agriculture and greenhouse gasses, Just Mayo's legal troubles, animal welfare, the philosophy of cultured meat, Chase's mom and much more.  Copies of Billion Dollar Burger can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

096--Bookin' w/ Chuck Palahniuk

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Choke, Haunted, and many others.  His newest novel is The Invention of Sound, published by our friends at Grand Central Publishing.  Topics of conversation include the current situation in Portland, the world of Hollywood sound effects, the Fontaine Method, Amy Hempel, saving voicemails left by deceased friends and family members, and much more.  Copies of The Invention of Sound can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

095--Bookin' w/ Randall Kenan

It is with a very heavy heart that I present this week's episode of Bookin' with Randall Kenan.  Randall Kenan was a wonderful person and an extraordinarily gifted writer who is gone from this world much too soon.  He left us with a wonderful new collection, If I Had Two Wings, which was published by our friends at WW Norton and Company.  Much of our recorded discussion sounds much different than it did just two weeks ago as we sat down to record it.  I am happy we got the opportunity to discuss If I Had Two Wings, and I am happy to have gotten the opportunity to know Randall Kenan.  He will be missed.

Topics of discussion include Robert Johnson at the crossroads, Time, Howard Hughes and Elon Musk, a Proustian sense of taste, Bill Withers, only missing a place when you are there, and ghosts.

Copies of If I Had Two Wings can be ordered here with free shipping.  

094--Bookin' w/ Daniel Galera

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Daniel Galera, winner of the Sao Paulo Literature Prize and one of the most celebrated and influential young authors in Brazilian literature.  Daniel is discussing his newest novel Twenty After Midnight, which is published by our friends at Penguin.  Topics of discussion include reading one's translated work (as a translator), online literary journals in the era of Internet 1.0, social media platforms as referential points in works of 'serious' literature, human behavior as it pertains to the hurried hiding of Facebook when someone is approaching, video games as a literary medium, the Marquis de Sade's 100 Days of Sodom as a TED Talk, and much more.  Copies of Twenty After Midnight can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

093--Bookin' w/ Alex Pugsley

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by celebrated novelist and screenwriter Alex Pugsley, who discusses his newest book Aubrey McKee, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of discussion include Halifax, James Joyce's Dubliners, what we can learn about a city by the way its inhabitants treat one another, why rebelliousness is "orange-colored", COVID-19 in Canada, and much more.  Copies of Aubrey McKee can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

092--Bookin' w/ Julie Murphy

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by bestselling author Julie Murphy, who discusses her new book Faith: Taking Flight, which is published by our friends at Balzer and Bray in a partnership with the good people at Valiant Comics.  Topics of discussion include Harbinger and Valiant Comics, rebooting origin stories, the Bloodshot film, comic-cons, crossovers, fame, meeting celebrity crushes, and book series that never end.  Copies of Faith: Taking Flight can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.