Bookin‪’‬ Jason Jefferies

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes award-winning author Alex Pugsley back to the program!  Alex discusses his new novel The Education of Aubrey McKee, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis.  Topics of conversation include novels about art and artists, worshipful beginners, people who are not active participants in their own lives, heartbreaking naïveté, comedy vs. horror, pirates, interesting problems, young adult love, loving someone as they become famous, and much more.  Copies of The Education of Aubrey McKee can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by R.A. Cramblitt, author of Like Printing Money, which is published by our friends at BC Publishing Inc.  Topics of discussion include music, self-publishing, Baltimore, 3D printing, sports fandom, the Charlotte Hornets, America being built by alcohol and drugs, oil and gas and sustainable alternatives, the type of person who rocks out to AC/DC while kidnapping someone, and much more.  Copies of Like Printing Money can be ordered here from Page 158 Books.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy, who discuss Hanging Tree Guitars, which is published by our friends at Piedmont Press in association with Music Maker Foundation.  Topics of conversation include guitar craftsmanship, mysticism and philosophy, lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, out of body experiences, gifts, and much more.  Copies of Hanging Tree Guitars can be ordered from Page 158 Books and the Music Maker Foundation website.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence Jeffrey D. Simon, who discusses his latest book The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists, which is published by our friends at Prometheus.  Topics of conversation include terrorism, spies, growing up as the child of a celebrity detective, crime fiction, Eliot Ness, Al Capone, and much more.  Copies of The Bulldog Detective can be purchased here from Page 158 Books.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Cally Fiedorek, who discusses her new novel Atta Boy, which is published by our friends at University of Iowa Press.  Topics of conversation include tattoos, New York exhaustion, MFA programs, working in a bar, pleasure as a pathology, Colorado, extremism, catnip for cult leaders, being smart (but not about the things that matter), and much more.  Copies of Atta Boy can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker Georgann Eubanks, who discusses Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology, which is co-published by our friends at No Depression and the Music Maker Foundation.  Topics of discussion include working with non-profits, the Emmys, SoLaTiDo, Music Maker Foundation, the world's happiest bluesman, Jimi Hendrix, writing in North Carolina, and much more.  Copies of Song Keepers can be ordered from Page 158 Books and the No Depression website.