Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes David Haynes, author of Martha's Daughter, which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include workshopping short stories vs. novels, novellas, relationships, mother/daughter dynamics, whether we should let co-workers into our personal lives, rhetorical education, America's underbelly, and much more.  Copies of Martha's Daughter can be ordered here.  Happy readi...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Levithan and Jens Lekman, authors of Songs for Other People's Weddings, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of conversation include touring, singing at a wedding vs. singing at a music hall, albums about books (and books about albums), change in the music industry, collaborative art, and much more.  Copies of Songs for Other People's Weddings can be ordered h...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Gary Graff, editor of 501 Essential Albums of the 80s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide, which is published by our friends at Quarto Publishing Group. Topics of discussion include Alice Cooper, lists, what people think of when they think of the 1980s (hair), Walkmans and boomboxes, CDs and cassettes, MTV, and much more.  Copies of 501 Essential Albums of the 80s: The Music Fan's Definiti...

On this week's Bookin', host Jason Jefferies interviews Professor Keon West, author of The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know But Probably Don't--Yet, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of conversation include the state of the world, Michelle Obama, how to teach a population to vet its sources, Star Trek, bias and racism in hiring practices, the UK vs. the USA, and much more!  Copies of The Scien...

On this week's Bookin', host Jason Jefferies welcomes Elaine Neil Orr, who discusses her new novel Dancing Woman, which is published by our friends at Blair.  Topics of discussion include people who are perfectly logical all the time, Nigeria, 1963, Harry Belafonte, mixed feelings about the church, how writing a novel is like painting, USAID, and more!  Signed copies of Dancing Woman can be ordered here (while supplies last).  Happ...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mark Kingwell, professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.  His new book is Question Authority, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include current affairs in Canada, super-cycle elections, demonization, what trustworthy leadership looks like, cultural an...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andy Corren, author of Dirtbag Queen, which is published by our friends at Grand Central Publishing.  Topics of conversation include bookstores in New York, obituaries, the right side of Fayetteville, nice furniture rooms, a child's perception of enormous riches, Donnie and Marie Osmond vs. RuPaul, and much more.  Signed copies of Dirtbag Queen can be ordered here from Page 158 Books (wh...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Julian Zabalbeascoa, author of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include the Two Dollar Radio tattoo club, the Spanish Civil War, parallels between pre-WWII Spain and the United States of America in 2025, individual liberties as great threats, James Joyce's Ulysses, research, priests vs. soldiers, whether a pers...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by the legendary poet Paul Jones, who discusses his new collection Something Necessary, which is published by our friends at Redhawk Publications.  Topics of conversation include the Arch Mission Foundation, support for an author community, musical writing, the place of poetry in a bookstore, seeing a poem in a piece of bread, and much more.  Copies of Something Necessary can be purchased h...

This week, Dan Hawkins and Jason Jefferies talk about Cormac McCarthy's Child of God by way of the recent Vanity Fair article that exposes Cormac McCarthy's relationship with Augusta Britt, which started when she was age 14-16.  Discusses are issues of art vs. the artist, artists versus politicians, thinks that are "of their time" and many more minefields.  Copies of Child of God can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Fore...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning journalist David Aldridge in a discussion about The Basketball 100: The Story of the Greatest Players in NBA History, which is published by our friends at William Morrow.  Topics of conversation include the shot clock, ACC basketball, analytics, how to accurately rank active players, Steph Curry vs. Larry Bird, Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker, Wes Unseld, the Charlotte Hornets...

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andrew K. Clark, author of Where Dark Things Grow, which is published by our friends at Cowboy Jamboree Press.  Topics of conversation include growing up in the midst of the eternal battle between good and evil, ancestry, the years between World War I and World War II, wulvers, magic, genre fiction vs literary fiction, monsters and Jesus, tall tales, and much more.  Copies of Where Dark ...