Bookin’

302--Bookin' w/ Jon Sealy

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jon Sealy, who discusses his new novel The King Street Affair, which is published by our friends at Haywire Books.  Topics of conversation include South Carolina, Graham Greene, Charleston, Wuthering Heights, signals in the noise, gangsters, popular media, newspapers, AI, ChatGPT and more!  Copies of The King Street Affair can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  

301--Bookin' w/ Paolo Bacigalupi

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi, who discusses his new novel Navola, which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf Publishers.  Topics of conversation include the intersection of The Godfather and Game of Thrones, items with mythological powers, dragon eyes, Renaissance Italy, doubting one's parents, reliable narrators, servants, and much more.  Copies of Navola can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  

300--Bookin' w/ Sue and Dave Lucey (on James Patterson's The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians)

This week is Bookin's 300th Episode!  Host Jason Jefferies is joined by Suzanne Lucey and Dave Lucey--owners of Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC--in a discussion of The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, a collection they contributed to, which is edited by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann and Chris Mooney, and which is published by our friends at Little, Brown and Company.  Topics of conversation include the origin of Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, James Patterson, personal service vs. shopping online, the 'WTF Did I Just Read' book club, the future of bookselling, and much more.  Copies of The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians can be ordered here from Page 158 Books.  

299--On Stephen King with T. Shawn Long

This week, I am joined by T. Shawn Long, host of the Horror Book Club at Page 158 Books in a discussion about all things Stephen King!  Topics of discussion include The Dark Tower, the Holly novels, 11/22/63, automobile accidents and more!  Stephen King's books can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  

298--Bookin' w/ Corey du Browa

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by music journalist Corey du Browa, who discusses his new book An Ideal for Living: A Celebration of the EP-Extended Play, which is published by our friends at HoZac Books.  Topics of conversation include EPs vs LPs, vinyl vs. CDs vs. streaming, Britt Daniel from Spoon, Frances the Mute by the Mars Volta, double EPs, genres, lists, how history colors the music industry, and much more.  Copies of An Ideal for Living: A Celebration of the EP-Extended Play can be ordered here from Hozac Records (extremely limited edition), and your other book needs can be fulfilled here by Page 158 Books!

297--On Homer and Madeline Miller w/ Dan Hawkins

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by the busiest reader on the planet, Dan Hawkins!  Topics of discussion include Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles and Circe, James Joyce's Ulysses, C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, and much more.  Copies of all of these books and more can be purchased at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC. 

296--Bookin' w/ Ari Honarvar

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Ari Honarvar, who discusses her novel A Girl Called Rumi, which is published by our friends at Forest Avenue Press.  Topics of discussion include refugee advocacy, Colorado, growing up in a war-torn region, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, mothership in Iran, ants, how to hide a horse, the concept of Home, the Iran/Iraq war, and much more.  Copies of A Girl Called Rumi can be purchased here from Page 158 Books.  

295--Bookin' w/ John Pavlovitz

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by writer, activist, pastor and storyteller John Pavlovitz, who discusses his book Worth Fighting For: Finding Courage and Compassion When Cruelty is Trending, which is published by our friends at WJK Books.  Topics of conversation include the dual roles of activist and pastor, bad news, the default mode of existence in a capitalist society as antithetical to human nature, waiting for a superhero or savior when one isn't coming, the toxic cocktail of outrage addiction and cultivated worry, mistaking activity for productivity, legislative goals, and much more.  Signed copies of Worth Fighting For can be ordered here from Page 158 Books, and each purchase comes with a signed print.

294--Bookin' w/ Jordan Elgrably

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jordan Elgrably, editor of Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction, which is published by our friends at City Lights Books.  Topics of conversation include The Markaz Review, City Lights Books, the Middle East as the center of the world, the partitioning of land, Israel vs. Palestine, cats, "No terrorist ever found inspiration in Kafka", The Catcher in the Rye, book recommendations, and much more.  Copies of Stories from the Center of the World can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

293--Bookin' w/ Charles Derber

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Professor of Sociology at Boston College and noted public intellectual Charles Derber, who discusses his new book Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It, which is co-written with Siren Moodlier and published by our friends at Routledge.  Topics of discussion include the abolition of fossil fuel emissions, focusing on today at the expense of tomorrow, post-scarcity economics, the USA's contribution to potential extinction, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and much more.  Copies of Dying for Capitalism can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.