This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Silas House, who discusses his new novel Lark, Ascending, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of discussion include "With or Without You", maritime novels, the Trump-era, fundamentalists, dual-citizenship, Ireland, climate fiction, dogs, beliefs, and much more.  Copies of Lark, Ascending can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Edgar Award-winning author and host of The Moth George Dawes Green, who discusses his new novel The Kingdoms of Savannah, which is published by our friends at Celadon Books.  Topics of discussion include Savannah as a fairy-tale city, Omar from The Wire, mothers, Southern facades, slumlords, Thomas Wolfe, support for independent bookstores, and much more.  Copies of The Kingdoms of Savannah can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jeff Wagner, author of Destination Onward: The Story of Fates Warning, which is published by our friends at FYI Press.  Topics of conversation include buying records in the pre-Napster/streaming-era, Fates Warning, living a life defined by music fandom, the plight of the Native American, progressive metal, Radiohead, England's influence on popular music, the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase, and much more.  Copies of Destination Onward can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Scott Gates, author of Gone, the Redeemer, which is published by our friends at Blue Ink Press.  Topics of conversation include Page 158 Books, sunsets, Cuban history, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Oprah Winfrey, A Picture of Dorian Gray, Colorado, and much more.  Copies of Gone, the Redeemer can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ray Robertson, author of Estates Large and Small, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include Biblioasis, the Grateful Dead, Hunterisms, virtual bookstores, leadership in the COVID-era, the used book business, the value of literary fiction in contemporary society, impersonations, and much more.  Copies of Estates Large and Small can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary literary icon Michael Parker, author of I Am the Light of This World, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include Randall Kenan, Chris Stamey, pawn shop guitars, clotheslines, Leadbelly, turnstiles, the word "world", differing perceptions of sexuality, drugs and alcohol, and much more.  Copies of I Am the Light of This World can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, Host Jason Jefferies is joined by Bookin' favorite Alex Pugsley, author of Shimmer, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include the James Joyce of Canada, 7-11, flip-phones, the Friends drinking game, pornography, Marlboro Ultra Lights, Courtney Love, guitar tablature, and much more.  Copies of Shimmer can be ordered here.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author B.A. Shapiro, author of Metropolis, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include self-storage units, the process of writing multiple protagonists, research, artistic mediums, street photography, writing what you know vs. writing what you don't know, embezzlement, whether commercial success changes the artist's approach to creation, an much more.  Copies  of Metropolis can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ellyn Gaydos, author of Pig Years, which is published by our friends at Knopf.  Topics of conversation include writing about pigs, growing up in Vermont, small farms vs. factory farms, snakes on the bathroom floor, consuming pig hearts, acts of desecration, stock car speedways, global warming, and much more.  Copies of Pig Years can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers, Aspen's trusted community bookstore.  

This week, Host Jason Jefferies is joined by Davey Davis, author of X, which is published by our friends at Catapult.  Topics of conversation include Roe v. Wade, waterboarding, Abu Ghraib, Matt Riedl, whether sexiness is political, small talk about climate change, practiced dishonesty, bodily confusion, whether change is ever really possible, and much more.  Copies of X can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Lydia Millet, author of Dinosaurs, which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton and Co.  Topics of conversation include books that take place in Arizona, short novels, Batman, new places vs. old places, A Children's Bible and climate change legislation, glass houses, basketball & skateboarding, Fox News & Football, dinosaurs, and much more.  Copies of Dinosaurs can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Timothy C. Baker, author of Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories, which is published by our friends at Goldsmiths Press.  Topics of conversation include Babar the elephant, Baltimore, Ronald Reagan, animal industries, Frog & Toad, The Lord of the Rings vs. Chronicles of Narnia, Watership Down, and much more.  Copies of Reading My Mother Back can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes Victoria Shepherd, author of A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband, and a Walking Corpse, which is published by our friends at Oneworld.  Topics of discussion include the difference between a fairy tale and a delusion, QAnon, paranoid schizophrenia, the connection between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Edgar Allen Poe, melancholy, the idea that one's body may be made of glass, and much more.  Copies of A History of Delusions can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Lara Williams, author of The Odyssey, which is published by our friends at Zando Projects.  Topics of discussion include The Odyssey as a title, wabi sabi, cruise ships, David Foster Wallace, boredom/inertia, oblivion, infantilization, scientology, designing your own money, shopping malls, and much more.  Copies of The Odyssey can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Christy Alexander Hallberg, author of Searching for Jimmy Page, which is published by our friends at Livingston Press.  Topics of discussion include Led Zeppelin as a rite of passage, Four Sticks, omens, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant's sandwich, Hammer of the Gods, Liv Tyler, and much more.  Copies of Searching for Jimmy Page can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers!

Welcome to Bookin's 200th Episode!  Host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary award-winning author John Kessel, who discusses his newest collection The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, which is published by our friends at Subterranean Press.  Topics of discussion includes the literary scene in North Carolina, Kim Stanley Robinson, birth, education, genre writing vs. non-genre writing, the current state of science-fiction, gatekeeping in the sci-fi community, and much more.  Copies of The Dark Ride can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Internationally bestselling author Corban Addison, who discusses his new book Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country On Trial, which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of discussion include John Grisham, narrative non-fiction, the silencing of Smithfield Food's employees and lawyers, what is wrong with NC politicians, hog growers as "family farmers", community activists vs. environmental extremists, Mona Lisa Wallace, eating bacon, and much more.  Copies of Wastelands can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Peter C. Baker, author of Planes, which is published by our friends at Alfred A. Knopf.  Topics of conversation include shops with regulars, cooking for pleasure vs. cooking by necessity, compulsive gossip, people who are overwhelmed by surprises, redactions, whether a coffee habit is a path to financial ruin, and much more.  Copies of Planes can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers, Aspen's trusted community bookstore.   

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden, which is published by our friends at Tor.com.  Topics of conversation include unsolicited advice, climate catastrophe, first-contact scenarios, alien races the look like spiders, children, diplomatic relations, the influence of media on human development, space colonization, and much more.  Copies of A Half-Built Garden can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers!  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz, author of Here Goes Nothing, which is published by our friends at Melville House.  Topics of conversation include worrying about other people's perceptions, the desire to be invisible, vegetarians who eat fish, the afterlife, fake smiles, newlyweds, Satanists, and much more.  Copies of Here Goes Nothing can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers!  THIS PODCAST FEATURES EXPLICIT CONTENT.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home, which is published by our friends at Mulholland Books.  Topics of conversation include Austin murderous tendencies, what an accent signals in media, waking dreams vs. daydreams, patience, genre fiction vs. literary fiction, cartels, El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, Cormac McCarthy, violence, and much more.  Copies of The Devil Takes You Home can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Matthew Ball, author of The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, which is published by our friends at Liveright Publishing Company.  Topics of conversation include Vannevar Bush, Walter Benjamin, Neal Stephenson, Satoshi Nakamoto, video games, Netflix and other streaming technologies, the metaverse vs. metaverses, Mark Zuckerburg, and much more.  Copies of The Metaverse can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, which is published by our friends at Bloomsbury. Topics of discussion include McSweeney's, happy accidents vs. sin, whether it is possible to read too many books, baseball, a child's perspective on financial security, books as religion, whether a parent should be their child's friend, shady priests, and much more.  Copies of Dirtbag, Massachusetts can be ordered here from Explore Booksellers.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Shelly Oria, editor of I Know What's Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, which is published by our friends at McSweeney's.  Topics of conversation include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale, anti-abortion abortion clinics, Roe v. Wade, baby formula, aggression within the context of oppression, optimism, and much more.  Copies of I Know What's Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Dave Pell, author of Please Scream Inside your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End, which is published by our friends at Hachette.  Topics of discussion include 826 Valencia, Japanese amusement parks, Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, Jeopardy vs. Wheel of Fortune, the royal family, "Do as I say not as I do", binders full of women, and much more.  Copies of Please Scream Inside your Heart can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shipstead, who discusses her new book You Have a Friend in 10A, which is published by our friends at Knopf.  Topics of discussion include Willie Nelson, ski resorts, when fictional animals die, men of great patience, creative writing workshops, unreliable narrators, the elusive nature of truth, Scientology, Elon Musk, and much more.  Copies of You Have a Friend in 10A can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers, Aspen's legendary independent community bookstore.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Mirin Fader, who discusses her latest book Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP, which is published by our friends at Hachette Books.  Topics of conversation include NBA championships, evictions, the financial crisis of 2008, the desire to win, narrating an audiobook, NBA coach Jason Kidd, and much more.  Copies of Giannis can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Alexandra Lange, author of Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall, which is published by our friends at Bloomsbury.  Topics of discussion include COVID-19's effect on shopping malls, the American Dream, the shopping mall as a public gathering space, arcades, Sweet Valley High, Stranger Things, repurposing mall buildings, and much more.  Copies of Meet Me By The Fountain can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author and Bookin' favorite Therese Anne Fowler, who discusses her new novel It All Comes Down To This, which is published by our friends at St. Martin's Press.  Topics of conversation include jumping genres, the Fowlerverse, observing human nature, the New York Mets, knowing your time is coming vs. not knowing, cell phone zombies, New York train stations vs. Swiss train stations, Southern Authors, and more.  Signed copies of It All Comes Down To This can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Dan Grunfeld, former professional basketball player and author of By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream, which is published by our friends at Triumph Books.  Topics of discussion include Holocaust awareness, Ray Allen, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird (and Kareem Abdul Jabbar), growing up in the NBA, concentration camps, and much more.  Copies of By the Grace of the Game can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Jarred McGinnis, author of The Coward, which is published by our friends at Canongate Books.  Topics of discussion include Artificial Intelligence, wheelchairs, the distance between fiction and memoir, advice, dealing with problematic family members, dreams, Zola, Ibsen, Tolstoy and the Lived Novel, James Frey, World War III, and much more.  Copies of The Coward can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Paige Clarke, author of She is Haunted, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of discussion include PhDs, Two Dollar Radio, kids, God as a character, Rumpelstiltskin, value systems, favorite words (geriatric vs. abomination vs. bloom), internet-driven obsessions, redactions, and much more.  Copies of She is Haunted can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Chris Bohjalian, who discusses his new novel The Lioness, which is published by our friends at Doubleday.  Topics of discussion include Orson Welles, how the majestic becomes mundane, formatting a novel, pop-up civilizations, mother-daughter relationships, Russia, retirement, showing vs. telling, and much more.  Copies of The Lioness can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Landis Wade, host of the Charlotte Readers Podcast and author of Deadly Declarations, which is published by our friends at Lystra Books and Literary Services.  Topics of conversation include Charlotte's literary history, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, George Washington, insomnia, book collections, John Grisham, what it means to be a "New South" city, and much more.  Signed copies of Deadly Declarations can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi, which is published by our friends at Little, Brown.  Topics of conversation include the line between fiction and memoir, slang, Scott McClanahan, The Wire, Roberto Bolaño, Lil B, wokeness, the politicization of art, and much more.  Copies of Fuccboi can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mike Florio, creator and owner, along with NBC Sports, of profootballtalk.com, a leading NFL news organization.  He hosts two daily shows on Peacock and Sirius XM, PFT Live and PFTPM.  During the football season, he also appears weekly on the Sunday Night Football broadcast.  His new book is Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (and Doesn’t), which is published by our friends at PublicAffairs.  Topics of conversation include fantasy football, Tom Brady, the NFL Draft, franchise quarterbacks, whether Roger Goodell is a good commissioner and much more.  Copies of Playmakers can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.    

This week's Bookin' features Ilube Nommo Award, New England Book Award, and Alex Award winning author Tochi Onyebuchi, who discusses his new novel Goliath, which is published by our friends at Tordotcom.  Topics of discussion include Economic Law, writing for young adults vs not so young adults, gangs, Connecticut novels, space exploration and global warming, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, cigarettes, Cormac McCarthy, and much more.  Copies of Goliath can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, who discusses her new book Sea of Tranquility, which is published by our friends at Knopf.  Topics of discussion include book tour interviews, time travelers, science-fiction vs. literary fiction, exile, whether a house can be haunted by failure, writing about the senses, life as a computer simulation, the Mandela effect, pandemic novels, and much more.  Signed copies of Sea of Tranquility can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING (while supplies last).  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of How Strange a Season, which is published by our friends at Scribner.  Topics of discussion include life in Vermont, family in North Carolina and growing up in the South, people who talk like they mean it, bossiness, estranged husbands, living in a glass house, wife days, the word "crazy", Alaska cold vs. Vermont cold, jazz and the medium of the album, and much more.  Signed copies of How Strange a Season can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism program at Wake Forest University and author of Beyond Innocence:The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt, which is published by our friends at Atlantic Monthly Press.  Topics of discussion include Darryl Hunt serving a sentence in prison for a murder he did not commit, Debbie Sykes, North Carolina as a training ground for journalism, writing about smoking in a tobacco town, the confederate flag, innocent people on death row, the exponential growth of the imprisonment of black people in the USA, reintegration for the formerly incarcerated, and much more.  Copies of Beyond Innocence can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Carissa Véliz, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.  Her new book is Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, which is published by our friends at Melville House Publishing.  Topics of conversation include the surveillance economy, 1984, what nefarious purposes our data is being used for, smart TVs, what happens when you look at your phone first thing in the morning, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, crises, whether kids will end up suing their parents over Facebook posts, what we can do to take power over our data back, and much more.  copies of Privacy is Power can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi, who discusses her new book Read Dangerously, which is published by our friends at Dey St.  Topics of conversation include how America is like the Islamic Republic, the harassment of poets and writers in Iran, whether we are living in a post-Trump era, Maus and banned books, Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses, Fahrenheit 451, Plato's Republic, To the End of the Land by David Grossman, and much more.  Copies of Read Dangerously can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pat Pickens, author of The Whalers: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Mystique of New England's (Second) Greatest NHL Franchise, which is published by our friends at Lyons Press.  Topics of conversation include the heartache of losing a favorite team, the resurgence of the Whalers brand, "Brass Bonanza", hockey as a welcoming sport for fans and journalists, Ron Francis, whether the Whalers needed to move to North Carolina to win a Stanley Cup, whether the NHL will ever return to Hartford, and much more.  Copies of The Whalers can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Laura Shin, host of the Unchained podcast and author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, which is published by our friends at Public Affairs.  Topics of conversation include Bitcoin, Ethereum, why the concept of cryptocurrencies are hard for some people to grasp, Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson and Cardano, currency vs. store of value, JP Morgan, C3PO, privacy, and much more.  Signed copies (bookplates) of The Cryptopians can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, who discusses her new book The Last House on the Street, which is published by our friends at St. Martin's Press.  Topics of discussion include the Voting Rights Act, SCOPE, northern agitators, North Carolina and the Deep South, the KKK, two-faced public citizens, the way forward for the United States in 2022, and much more!  Signed copies of The Last House on the Street can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sasha Fletcher, author of Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, which is published by our friends at Melville House.  Topics of conversation include how cold it has to be outside to excrete billionaires in the street, the lengths one must go to in order to collect on one's invoices, scaremongering re: nuclear missile attacks, what it means to be President, police, angels, and much more.  Copies of Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Paul Cantor, author of Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of discussion include the drive to succeed, car crashes, fame and the aversion to fame, Ariana Grande, Kurt Cobain, Dale and Andrew Carnegie, a "dependable middle class existence", Mac Miller as a "Jewish rapper", whether or not Bob Dylan is a rockstar, Outkast's Aquemeni, whether we will be listening to Mac Miller in twenty years, and much more.  Copies of Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mesha Maren, author of Perpetual West, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include traveling in the COVID-era, Roberto Bolaño, literary allusions in works of literature, the idea of originality, stalking Cormac McCarthy, Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Lucha Libre wrestling, how wrestling is like a presidential election, and much more.  Copies of Perpetual West can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.