This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Amy Koppelman, author of A Mouthful of Air, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include adapting a novel into a screenplay, Indie bookstores, Barnes & Noble and Amazon, postpartum depression, Kurt Cobain and David Foster Wallace, anti-depressants, Roe vs. Wade, breastfeeding, organic cookies, and much more.  Copies of A Mouthful of Air can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

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154--Bookin‘ w/ Amy Koppelman

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mike DeCapite, author of Jacket Weather, which is published by our friends at Soft Skull Press.  Topics of conversation include Lou Reed, Spotify Playlists, the Manhattan Bridge, Ray Barretto, acid, Lez Zeppelin, "Don't Stop Believin'" and The Sopranos, solitude, Hot Tuna, The Rolling Stones, and more.  Copies of Jacket Weather can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

153--Bookin‘ w/ Mike DeCapite

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home, which is published by our friends at William Morrow.  Topics of conversation include independent bookstores, ghost stories, The Andy Griffith Show, writing about technology, the confederate flag, racism, the Pterodactyl Club, the New York Times Book Review, and much more.  Copies of When Ghosts Come Home can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.   

152--Bookin‘ w/ Wiley Cash

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times-bestselling author Joe Posnanski, who discusses his new book The Baseball 100, which is published by our friends at Avid Reader Press.  Topics of discussion include falling in love with baseball, Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani, statistics that are not recorded, Ozzie Smith, Bullet Rogan, Mad Max Scherzer and the Los Angeles Dodgers, where 'catcher' is the most important and complex position in baseball, GOAT sports books, fathers and sons, baseball cards, the importance of steering ones loved ones away from Orioles fandom, Barry Bonds and steroids, Buster Posey, and much more.  Copies of The Baseball 100 can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

151--Bookin‘ w/ Joe Posnanski

For our 150th episode, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, and New York Times bestselling author Richard Powers, who discusses his new novel Bewilderment, which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton & Company.  Topics of discussion include medicating children, Physics vs. English, the search for life in outer space, video games, William T. Vollmann, Buddhism, the idea that we are living in a simulation, homeschooling, and much more.  Copies of Bewilderment can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

150--Bookin‘ w/ Richard Powers

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Eric Powell and Harold Schecter, authors of Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, which is published by our friends at Albatross Funny Books.  Topics of conversation include David Fincher and Mike Mignola, the Milwaukee Bucks, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, how a pirate story is different from a bible story, religious fanaticism, at what age kids may realize something is wrong with their parents, and much more.  Copies of Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

149--Bookin‘ w/Eric Powell and Harold Schecter

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award winning author Cadwell Turnbull, who discusses his fantastic new novel No Gods, No Monsters, which is published by our friends at Blackstone Publishing.  Topics of discussion include books set in Raleigh, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, bookstores, eternal return, werewolves, police shootings, comic books, and much more.  Copies of No Gods, No Monsters can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

148--Bookin‘ w/ Cadwell Turnbull

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author John Grisham, who discusses his newest book Sooley, which is published by our friends at Doubleday Books.  Topics of discussion include the ongoing crisis in Sudan, basketball novels, offense vs. defense, Manute Bol, ethnic conflict, technology and the lack thereof, and much more.  Copies of Sooley can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club Plus+.  

147--Bookin' w/ John Grisham

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Alex Pheby, winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and author of Lucia, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include Lucia and James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Egyptology, Harry Potter, fan fiction, the likelihood that current authors will be studied in one hundred years, and much more.  Copies of Lucia can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

146--Bookin' w/ Alex Pheby

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bela Koe-Krompecher, founder of Anyway Records and author of love, death & photosynthesis, which is published by our friends at Don Giovanni Records.  Topics of conversation include Columbus, Ohio, punk rock, Mudhoney, time shifts, vinyl, the shifting retail landscape as it relates to record stores and bookstores, the Dead Milkmen, and so much more.  Copies of love, death & photosynthesis can be ordered from Quail Ridge Books with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.    

145--Bookin' w/ Bela Koe-Krompecher

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Tom Lin, author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, which is published by our friends at Little, Brown and Company.  Topics of discussion include writing a novel as a college student, the outlaw western persona, living a traceless life, railroads, dangerous memories, Cormac McCarthy, magical realism, and much more.  Copies of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club +.  

144--Bookin' w/ Tom Lin

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author and Hugo and Nebula award winner Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries, which is published by our friends at TOR dot com.  Topics of discussion include binging television series, how Murderbot doesn't actually do that much murdering, learned behaviors relative to television and other media, machine rights, video games as literary devices, and much more.  Copies of all of the books in the Murderbot Diaries, including the most recent novel Fugitive Telemetry, can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers Club+.  

143--Bookin' w/ Martha Wells

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, who discusses his newest novel Hell of a Book, which is published by our friends at Dutton Books.  Topics of conversation include Nicolas Cage, invisibility, bullying, meta-narratives, call center culture, naturalism, the militarization of police, and much more.  Copies of Hell of a Book can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

142--Bookin' w Jason Mott

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Andy Weir, who discusses his newest novel Project Hail Mary, which is published by our friends at Random House.  Topics of discussion include rum old-fashioneds, isolation in outer space (and during COVID-19), whether or not humanity would band together to help one another during a planetary catastrophe, why aliens might look like spiders, buddy stories, problems of communication during first contact, and much more.  Copies of Project Hail Mary can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.

141--Bookin' w/ Andy Weir

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by John Freeman, editor of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, which is published by our friends at Penguin Press.  Topics of discussion include what "Modern" means, genre fiction, academia, The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker and Kamala Harris, Emergency by Denis Johnson, and much more.  Copies of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

140--Bookin' w/ John Freeman

Author interviews and book discussion with host Jason Jefferies. Presented by Quail Ridge Books.

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