Jesse Donaldson tells James about the Oxycodone scourge, the effect it has had on his home state of Kentucky, and how it informed his debut novel, THE MORE THEY DISAPPEAR. He also recommends writing while gardening, and recalls the time he drove to New York with a tape-playing robot. Plus Lauren Cerand joins the show to discuss book publicity.

Jesse and James Discuss:

FOURTH OF JULY CREEK by Smith Henderson PHAIDON ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE Kenyon College Lewis Hyde P.F. Kluge Breece D'J Pancake Denis Johnson ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Mark Richard Amy Hempel Raymond Carver Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway Jorge Luis Borges Becca Wadlinger George Saunders Mary Karr RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco Samuel Beckett ELBOW ROOM by James Alan McPherson "Trilobites" by Breece D'J Pancake Raymond Chandler DREAMLAND by Sam Quinones ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene Edith Wharton Daniel Woodrell FALCONER by John Cheever Ross Macdonald KC Constantine Jamie Gordon SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan Michael Parker