Episodes

  • 299--On Stephen King with T. Shawn Long
    Jul 29 2024

    This week, I am joined by T. Shawn Long, host of the Horror Book Club at Page 158 Books in a discussion about all things Stephen King! Topics of discussion include The Dark Tower, the Holly novels, 11/22/63, automobile accidents and more! Stephen King's books can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

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    39 mins
  • 298--Bookin' w/ Corey du Browa
    Jul 22 2024

    This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by music journalist Corey du Browa, who discusses his new book An Ideal for Living: A Celebration of the EP-Extended Play, which is published by our friends at HoZac Books. Topics of conversation include EPs vs LPs, vinyl vs. CDs vs. streaming, Britt Daniel from Spoon, Frances the Mute by the Mars Volta, double EPs, genres, lists, how history colors the music industry, and much more. Copies of An Ideal for Living: A Celebration of the EP-Extended Play can be ordered here from Hozac Records (extremely limited edition), and your other book needs can be fulfilled here by Page 158 Books!

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    47 mins
  • 297--On Homer and Madeline Miller w/ Dan Hawkins
    Jul 15 2024

    This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by the busiest reader on the planet, Dan Hawkins! Topics of discussion include Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles and Circe, James Joyce's Ulysses, C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, and much more. Copies of all of these books and more can be purchased at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

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    56 mins
  • 296--Bookin' w/ Ari Honarvar
    Jul 8 2024

    This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Ari Honarvar, who discusses her novel A Girl Called Rumi, which is published by our friends at Forest Avenue Press. Topics of discussion include refugee advocacy, Colorado, growing up in a war-torn region, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, mothership in Iran, ants, how to hide a horse, the concept of Home, the Iran/Iraq war, and much more. Copies of A Girl Called Rumi can be purchased here from Page 158 Books.

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    38 mins
  • 295--Bookin' w/ John Pavlovitz
    Jul 1 2024

    This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by writer, activist, pastor and storyteller John Pavlovitz, who discusses his book Worth Fighting For: Finding Courage and Compassion When Cruelty is Trending, which is published by our friends at WJK Books. Topics of conversation include the dual roles of activist and pastor, bad news, the default mode of existence in a capitalist society as antithetical to human nature, waiting for a superhero or savior when one isn't coming, the toxic cocktail of outrage addiction and cultivated worry, mistaking activity for productivity, legislative goals, and much more. Signed copies of Worth Fighting For can be ordered here from Page 158 Books, and each purchase comes with a signed print.

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    21 mins
  • 294--Bookin' w/ Jordan Elgrably
    Jun 24 2024

    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 of the World can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

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    31 mins
  • 293--Bookin' w/ Charles Derber
    Jun 17 2024

    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 extinction, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and much more. Copies of Dying for Capitalism can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

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    56 mins
  • 292--Bookin' w/ Mesha Maren
    Jun 10 2024

    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 ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.

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    38 mins