Bookin’

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Brad Balukjian, author ofThe SixPack: 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 Packcan 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 novelThe 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 ofThe Education of Aubrey McKeecan be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by R.A. Cramblitt, author ofLike 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 ofLike Printing Moneycan be ordered here from Page 158 Books.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy, who discussHanging 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 ofHanging Tree Guitarscan 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 ofThe Bulldog Detectivecan be purchased here from Page 158 Books.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Cally Fiedorek, who discusses her new novelAtta 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 ofAtta Boycan 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 discussesSong 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 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).

This week, I am joined by Dan Hawkins, librarian at the Citadel and repeat Bookin' podcast guest (see the Emergency Cormac McCarthy episode). Dan discussesPale Fireby 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 ofPale Firecan 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 ofMother Doll can be ordered here. Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival and libro.fm audiobooks for presenting this episode.