This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Zachary Pace, author of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio.  Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, pronouns, fathers, The Rolling Stones, Richard Dyer, voices, Madonna, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, anxiety, MySpace, Hop Along, and much more.  Copies of I Sing to Use the Waiting can be ordered here from Page 158 Books is Wake Forest, NC.  Thank you to the North Carolina Book Festival for presenting this episode.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by bestselling and North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame-author Jill McCorkle, who discusses her new collection Old Crimes and Other Stories, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include friendships and mentorships, North Carolina State University, creative writing classes and prompts, blood sacrifices, whether Mac and cheese and mashed potatoes and gravy are vegetables, the Blackout, artificial intelligence, Frankenstein's monster, technological cycles, and much more.  Copies of Old Crimes and Other Stories can be purchased here.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Paul Andersen, who discusses his new book Moonlight Over Pearl: Ten Stories from Aspen, which is published by our friends at Roaring Fork Press.  Topics of conversation include the Aspen Times, Kathryn Thalberg, the "definitive Aspen novel", black ice, first tracks, Goethe, nightlife, the lives that other people lead, and much more.  Copies of Moonlight Over Pearl can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Matthew J.C. Clark, author of Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences, which is published by our friends at the University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include Maine, floorboards, the correlation between possession of material goods and personal happiness, Checkov, the Tree of Liberty and its need to be refreshed by the blood of patriots, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, January 6th, guns, Al Gore, and much more.  Copies of Bjarki, Not Bjarki can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  More on Matthew here: https://www.matthewjcclark.com/

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Ben Goldfarb, who discusses his new book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, which is published by our friends at W.W. Norton and Company.  Topics of conversation include how cliff swallows are like cockroaches, how more bird deaths are caused by roads than are caused by oil spills, the routes of all evil, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, early rebellions against roads, reclamation by nature, and much more.  Copies of Crossings can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Kate Brody, author of Rabbit Hole, which is published by our friends at SOHO Crime.  Topics of conversation include publishing one's first novel, covered bridges in Maine, why humans focus on the things they don't have vs. the things they do, capitalism, book design, drugs and addiction, Dave Matthews Band cover bands, inspirational works of literature, reddit, and much more.  Copies of Rabbit Hole can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Angela C. Sutton, author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, which is published by our friends at Prometheus books.  Topics of conversation include making a career out of writing about pirates, research, Black Bart, captured slaves who became pirates, the African King who drank out of a chalice made from dutchmen’s skulls, playing European powers against one another, muskets, and much more.  Copies of Pirates of the Slave Trade can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Leonard Grob, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and John K. Roth, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.  Their new book is Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy, which is published by our friends at Cascade Books.  Topics of conversation include Russia and Ukraine, why we are still talking about Donald Trump, Don Winslow and the 11th hour, the effect of COVID-19 deaths on the American economy and job market, Socrates, Trump vs. Putin vs. Hitler vs. Mussolini, using a poor educational system to control a populous, the potential for World War III, and much more.  Copies of Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by bestselling author Joshua Mohr, who discusses his new novel Farsickness, which is published by our friends at House of Vlad.  Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, Aspen Words, art, voices in our heads, simile and metaphor, David Lynch, psychopath computers, what happens when someone pulls a knife around a child, and much more.  Copies of Farsickness can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Brooke Lockyer, who discusses her new novel Burr, which is published by our friends at Nightwood Editions.  Topics of conversation include books that are like tarot cards, towns as POV characters, a young sibling death, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, trousers vs. pantaloons, the Wrestler's Code, self-realization, flat-earhters, and much more.  Copies of Burr can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.