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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Scott Reintgen, who discusses his new book The Last Dragon On Mars, which is published by our friends at Aladdin, a division of Simon and Schuster. Topics of conversation include the intersection of sci-fi and fantasy, young adult novels versus middle grade novels, Mad Max and Fallout, school visits, relocation clinics, dragons in space and more. Copies of The Last Dragon On Mars can be purchased here from Page 158 Books.
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bookin' favorite Dan Hawkins in a discussion about The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy, the first in a Bookin' read-through of McCarthy's works. Topics of discussion include William Faulkner, the Tennessee Valley Authority, bootleggers and blockaders, first novels, nature vs. technology, and much more. Copies of The Orchard Keeper can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC. Happy reading!
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities fellow Nora Lange, who discusses her new novel Us Fools, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio. Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, the future as a capitalist scam, unreliable narrators, house projects meant to temper drinking, portraits, confusing liberalism/socialism/capitalism, similarities between internet dating and fad diets, and much more. Copies of Us Fools can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC. Happy reading!
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning journalist and 2024 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate Steven Petrow, who discusses his new book The Joy You Make, which is published by The Open Field and Penguin Life, and imprint of Penguin Random House. Topics of discussion include The Open Field, crowdsourcing, half-empty glasses vs. half-full glasses, life as a Piedmont Laureate, being too busy for your own good, joy as a whole wheat muffin, The Last First Day by Carrie Brown and much more! Copies of The Joy You Make can be purchased here from Page 158 Books! Steven Petrow will be appearing at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC on October 22, 2024 at 6pm.
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Marguerite Sheffer, who discusses her new collection The Man in the Banana Trees, which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press. Topics of discussion include writing groups, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, student behavior, sequencing, the difference between workshopping a story and talking about one in an interview, resiliency, rain theft, being the first at something, lost snakes, sacrifice, and much more. Copies of The Man in the Banana Trees can be preordered here (and purchased here after 11/5/24). Happy reading!
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, who discusses his new novella Crypt of the Moon Spider, which is published by our friends at TOR Nightfire. Topics of discussion include Asheville, Dale Bailey, treatment for the melancholy, the dark side of the moon, dead gods, the relationship between the moon and madness, spousal behaviors, the 1920s, Frankenstein and much more. Copies of Crypt of the Moon Spider can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jon Sealy, who discusses his new novel The King Street Affair, which is published by our friends at Haywire Books. Topics of conversation include South Carolina, Graham Greene, Charleston, Wuthering Heights, signals in the noise, gangsters, popular media, newspapers, AI, ChatGPT and more! Copies of The King Street Affair can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi, who discusses his new novel Navola, which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf Publishers. Topics of conversation include the intersection of The Godfather and Game of Thrones, items with mythological powers, dragon eyes, Renaissance Italy, doubting one's parents, reliable narrators, servants, and much more. Copies of Navola can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
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This week is Bookin's 300th Episode! Host Jason Jefferies is joined by Suzanne Lucey and Dave Lucey--owners of Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC--in a discussion of The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, a collection they contributed to, which is edited by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann and Chris Mooney, and which is published by our friends at Little, Brown and Company. Topics of conversation include the origin of Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, James Patterson, personal service vs. shopping online, the 'WTF Did I Just Read' book club, the future of bookselling, and much more. Copies of The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians can be ordered here from Page 158 Books.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 of Explorers can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
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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. Copies of Season of Shattered Dreams can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
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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 document, Jimbo Mathus, Metal Flake Mother, and much more. Copies of A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989-1999 can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC. SIGNED COPIES ARE AVAILABLE (while supplies last).
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