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281--Bookin' w/Daniel Wallace

44m · Bookin’ · 25 Mar 06:01

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Daniel Wallace, who discusses his newest bookThis 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 ofThis Isn't Going to End Wellcan be purchased here or downloaded from Libro.fm for FREE with the promo code BOOKIN (new members only).

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