Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by baseball writer Eric Vickrey, who discusses his new book Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians and a Tragic Bus Crash that Changed Everything, which is published by our friends at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Topics of discussion include post-World War II conditions in the United States of America, PCLs, formatting, curses and averting disaster, the rationing of oil and gas, Babe Ruth's radio show, and much more. Copies of Season of Shattered Dreams can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by North Carolina Music Hall of Famer and former Squirrel Nut Zipper Tom Maxwell, who discusses his new book A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989-1999, which is published by our friends at Hachette Books. Topics of conversation include North Carolina musical history, the Cat's Cradle, the temptation to label something as 'the next' something else, Dexter Romweber and the Flat Duo Jets, the desire for profit vs. the desire to document, Jimbo Mathus, Metal Flake Mother, and much more. Copies of A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989-1999 can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC. SIGNED COPIES ARE AVAILABLE (while supplies last).

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Brad Balukjian, author of The Six Pack: On the Open Road to Wrestlemania, which is published by our friends at Hachette Books. Topics of conversation include being in an open relationship with your VCR, professional wrestling, the Iron Sheik, MTV, Captain Lou Albano, driving your childhood hero to buy drugs, the line between fact and fiction, journalists methods, and much more. Copies of The Six Pack can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes award-winning author Alex Pugsley back to the program! Alex discusses his new novel The Education of Aubrey McKee, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis. Topics of conversation include novels about art and artists, worshipful beginners, people who are not active participants in their own lives, heartbreaking naïveté, comedy vs. horror, pirates, interesting problems, young adult love, loving someone as they become famous, and much more. Copies of The Education of Aubrey McKee can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by R.A. Cramblitt, author of Like Printing Money, which is published by our friends at BC Publishing Inc. Topics of discussion include music, self-publishing, Baltimore, 3D printing, sports fandom, the Charlotte Hornets, America being built by alcohol and drugs, oil and gas and sustainable alternatives, the type of person who rocks out to AC/DC while kidnapping someone, and much more. Copies of Like Printing Money can be ordered here from Page 158 Books.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy, who discuss Hanging Tree Guitars, which is published by our friends at Piedmont Press in association with Music Maker Foundation. Topics of conversation include guitar craftsmanship, mysticism and philosophy, lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, out of body experiences, gifts, and much more. Copies of Hanging Tree Guitars can be ordered from Page 158 Books and the Music Maker Foundation website.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence Jeffrey D. Simon, who discusses his latest book The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists, which is published by our friends at Prometheus. Topics of conversation include terrorism, spies, growing up as the child of a celebrity detective, crime fiction, Eliot Ness, Al Capone, and much more. Copies of The Bulldog Detective can be purchased here from Page 158 Books.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Cally Fiedorek, who discusses her new novel Atta Boy, which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press. Topics of conversation include tattoos, New York exhaustion, MFA programs, working in a bar, pleasure as a pathology, Colorado, extremism, catnip for cult leaders, being smart (but not about the things that matter), and much more. Copies of Atta Boy can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker Georgann Eubanks, who discusses Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology, which is co-published by our friends at No Depression and the Music Maker Foundation. Topics of discussion include working with non-profits, the Emmys, SoLaTiDo, Music Maker Foundation, the world's happiest bluesman, Jimi Hendrix, writing in North Carolina, and much more. Copies of Song Keepers can be ordered from Page 158 Books and the No Depression website.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Daniel Wallace, who discusses his newest book This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Topics of discussion include teaching overseas, delineations between before and after, digesting an idea over decades, suicide prevention, cartooning, North Carolina vs. Alabama, Walker Percy and James Joyce, writing as a cathartic exercise, and much more. Copies of This Isn't Going to End Well can be purchased here or downloaded from Libro.fm for FREE with the promo code BOOKIN (new members only).

This week, I am joined by Dan Hawkins, librarian at the Citadel and repeat Bookin' podcast guest (see the Emergency Cormac McCarthy episode). Dan discusses Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest novels of all-time. Topics of discussion include Robert Frost, J.R.R. Tolkien, unreliable narrators, the very loud amusement park right outside of Charles Kinbote's lodgings, Lolita, chess problems, Hopscotch, and much more. Copies of Pale Fire can be purchased here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival for presenting this episode.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Katya Apekina for a discussion of her new novel Mother Doll, which is published by our friends at The Overlook Press. Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, the Overlook Press, baby bedtime routines, visitations, September 11th, video stores, physical media vs. digital media, organization, ghost stories, self-deception, knowledge and education, and much more. Copies of Mother Doll can be ordered here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and libro.fm audiobooks for presenting this episode.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andy Lee Roth, one of the editors--along with Mickey Huff--of Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024, which is published by our friends at The Censored Press and 7 Stories Press. Topics of conversation include the upcoming election cycle, propaganda, China and North Korea, media literacy, centered and accurate news organization, sensationalism, news deserts, muckraking, and much more. Copies of Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024 can be purchased from your favorite independent bookstore. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and libro.fm audiobooks for presenting this episode.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Roger D. Rapoport, who discusses his latest novel Searching for Patty Hearst, which is published by our friends at Lexographic Press. Topics of conversation include filmmaking, travel guides, Lexographic Press, Rupert Murdoch, Succession, music of the decades, William Randolph Hearst, the difference in the news cycles over the years, and much more. Copies of Searching for Patty Hearst can be purchased here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and Libro.fm for presenting this episode.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Aspen Words finalist and Wonderland Book Award-winner Brian Allen Carr, who discusses his latest novel Bad Foundations, which is published by our friends at Clash Books. Topics of conversation include Muncie, Indiana, Taylor Swift, crawl spaces, Mary Louise Kelly, missed opportunities, living to work vs. working to live, presidential text messages, and much more. Copies of Bad Foundations can be purchased here.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Zachary Pace, author of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio. Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, pronouns, fathers, The Rolling Stones, Richard Dyer, voices, Madonna, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, anxiety, MySpace, Hop Along, and much more. Copies of I Sing to Use the Waiting can be ordered here from Page 158 Books is Wake Forest, NC. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival for presenting this episode.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by bestselling and North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame-author Jill McCorkle, who discusses her new collection Old Crimes and Other Stories, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Topics of conversation include friendships and mentorships, North Carolina State University, creative writing classes and prompts, blood sacrifices, whether Mac and cheese and mashed potatoes and gravy are vegetables, the Blackout, artificial intelligence, Frankenstein's monster, technological cycles, and much more. Copies of Old Crimes and Other Stories can be purchased here.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Paul Andersen, who discusses his new book Moonlight Over Pearl: Ten Stories from Aspen, which is published by our friends at Roaring Fork Press. Topics of conversation include the Aspen Times, Kathryn Thalberg, the "definitive Aspen novel", black ice, first tracks, Goethe, nightlife, the lives that other people lead, and much more. Copies of Moonlight Over Pearl can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Matthew J.C. Clark, author of Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences, which is published by our friends at the University of Iowa Press. Topics of conversation include Maine, floorboards, the correlation between possession of material goods and personal happiness, Checkov, the Tree of Liberty and its need to be refreshed by the blood of patriots, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, January 6th, guns, Al Gore, and much more. Copies of Bjarki, Not Bjarki can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+. More on Matthew here: https://www.matthewjcclark.com/

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Ben Goldfarb, who discusses his new book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton and Company. Topics of conversation include how cliff swallows are like cockroaches, how more bird deaths are caused by roads than are caused by oil spills, the routes of all evil, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, early rebellions against roads, reclamation by nature, and much more. Copies of Crossings can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.