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Bookin’

Jason Jefferies

Author interviews and book discussion with host Jason Jefferies. Presented by Page 158 Books.

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294--Bookin' w/ Jordan Elgrably

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2024/06/24

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

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293--Bookin' w/ Charles Derber

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2024/06/17

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

37:46

292--Bookin' w/ Mesha Maren

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2024/06/10

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author and Bookin' favorite Mesha Maren, who discusses her new book Shae, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Topics of discussion include teaching athletes, the nature of memory, moments that change our lives, Tool as a Christian rock band, relationships with parents, diving when you don't know how to swim, Oxycontin, artists in West Virginia, theft at The Pink Pony, and much more. Copies of Shae can be

21:28

291--Bookin' w/ Amanda Bellows

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2024/06/03

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Amanda Bellows, who discusses her new book Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions, which is published by our friends at William Morrow. Topics of conversation include UNC-Chapel Hill, Kentucky, westward expansion in the United States of America, Sacagawea, James Beckwourth, reconciling amazing deeds with the terrible people responsible for them, Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Dakota territories, John Muir, and much more. Copies

16:06

290--Bookin' w/ Eric Vickrey

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2024/05/27

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

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289--Bookin' w/ Tom Maxwell

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2024/05/20

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

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288--Bookin' w/ Brad Balukjian

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2024/05/13

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

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287--Bookin' w/ Alex Pugsley

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2024/05/06

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

33:23

286--Bookin' w/ R.A. Cramblitt

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2024/04/29

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

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285--Bookin' w/ Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy

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2024/04/22

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.

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284--Bookin' w/ Jeffrey D. Simon

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2024/04/15

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

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283--Bookin' w/ Cally Fiedorek

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2024/04/08

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.

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282--Bookin' w/ Georgann Eubanks

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2024/04/01

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

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281--Bookin' w/Daniel Wallace

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2024/03/25

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

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280--Pale Fire Podcast w/ Dan Hawkins

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2024/03/18

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

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279--Bookin' w/ Katya Apekina

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2024/03/11

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

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278--Bookin' w/ Andy Lee Roth

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2024/03/04

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

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277--Bookin' w/ Roger D. Rapoport

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2024/02/26

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

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276--Bookin' w/ Brian Allen Carr

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2024/02/19

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.

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275--Bookin' w/ Zachary Pace

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2024/02/12

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

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