Bookin’

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.  

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.