Best Jason Jefferies Podcasts (2024)

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294--Bookin' w/ Jordan Elgrably 30:45

3d ago30:45

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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…

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08--New Releases from 06/14/24 including Hank, Pattie & the Current, The Decemberists, NxWorries, Mr. Sam & the People People, Cola and more... 1:06:01

5d ago1:06:01

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This week, hosts Reggie Worth and Jason Jefferies are joined by Hank Smith, who discusses his new album with Hank, Pattie & the Current (Paper Lanterns). Also discussed: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again by The Decemberists, Why Lawd? by NxWorries, Again! Again! by Mr. Sam & the People People, The Gloss by Cola, The Art of the Lie by John Grant, …

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293--Bookin' w/ Charles Derber 56:17

10d ago56:17

56:17

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 inclu…

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07--New Releases from 06/07/24 including Kelley Stoltz, Bloomsday, Strand of Oaks, Man Man, Joey Valance & Brae and more... 1:13:20

12d ago1:13:20

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This week, Reggie and Jason discuss the new releases from June 7th, 2024 including La Fleur by Kelley Stoltz, BRAT by Charlie xcx, Below the Waste by Goat Girl, NO HANDS by Joey Valence & Brae, EELS TIME! by Eels, Radiosoul by Alfie Templeman, Carrot On Strings by Man Man, TIMELESS by KAYTRANADA, Time by The Game, Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free …

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292--Bookin' w/ Mesha Maren 37:46

17d ago37:46

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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 wi…

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06--New Releases from 5/31/24 including Beak>, Habibi, Willie Nelson, Richard Thompson, Buffalo Tom, and more... 56:31

19d ago56:31

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This week, Reggie Worth and Jason Jefferies discuss the new albums released on 5/31/24 including >>>> by Beak>, Dreamachine by Habit, Ship to Shore by Richard Thompson, Jump Rope by Buffalo Tom, and The Border by Willie Nelson. Also discussed are Sylvan Esso, The Rolling Stones, Tyler Childers, TANGK by Idles, Where we've been, Where we go from her…

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291--Bookin' w/ Amanda Bellows 21:28

24d ago21:28

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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 am…

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05--New Releases from 5/24/24 and more including DIIV, Vince Staples, La Luz, Andrew Bird, Ryan Adams, Kanye West and more... 1:11:46

26d ago1:11:46

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This week, hosts Reggie Worth and Jason Jefferies discuss the new releases from 5/24/24 including Dark Times by Vince Staples, Frog In Boiling Water by DIIV, Sunday Morning Put-On by Andrew Bird, Alan Hampton and Ted Poor and News of the Universe by La Luz, and they also discuss the classic questions of the medium vs. the message and art vs. artist…

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290--Bookin' w/ Eric Vickrey 16:06

1M ago16:06

16:06

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…

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04–New Releases from 5/17/24 including The Mavericks, Beth Gibbons, Shellac, Childish Gambino, Martha Spencer and more… 43:07

1M ago43:07

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This week, Reggie and Jason discuss Moon and Stars by The Mavericks, Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons, To All Trains by Shellac, Atavista by Childish Gambino, Out in La La Land by Martha Spencer, Dark Matter by Pearl Jam, Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee, A LA SALA by Khruangbin, I Got Heaven by Mannequin Pussy, and much more. Listmas!…

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289--Bookin' w/ Tom Maxwell 33:27

1M ago33:27

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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…

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03--New Releases from 5/10/24 including Ghostface Killah, Amen Dunes, Pokey LaFarge, Kings of Leon & more... 51:06

1M ago51:06

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This week, hosts Jason Jefferies and Reggie Worth discuss the new albums released during the week of 5/10/24, including Set The Tone (Guns & Roses) by Ghostface Killah, Rhumba Country by Pokey LaFarge, Stampede: Vol. 1 by Orville Peck, Can We Please Have Fun by Kings of Leon, Cape Forestier by Angus & Julia Stone, Death Jokes by Amen Dunes and The …

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288--Bookin' w/ Brad Balukjian 32:41

1M ago32:41

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Brad Balukjian, author of The Six Pack: On the Open Road to Wrestlemania, which is published by our friends at Hachette Books. Topics of conversation include being in an open relationship with your VCR, professional wrestling, the Iron Sheik, MTV, Captain Lou Albano, driving your childhood hero to buy dr…

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02--New Releases from 5/3/24 including Jessica Pratt, The Lemon Twigs and Kamasi Washington 45:49

2M ago45:49

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Episode 2 of The Listmas Podcast is upon us! This week, Jason and Reggie discuss Wall of Eyes by The Smile, Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee, Here in the Pitch by Jessica Pratt, A Dream is All We Know by The Lemon Twigs, and Fearless Movement by Kamasi Washington. Also discussed: poker, The Beach Boys, band dynamics, American Idol, the Kongs, and much …

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287--Bookin' w/ Alex Pugsley 1:02:07

2M ago1:02:07

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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, hea…

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01--New Releases from 4/26/24 including Charley Crockett, St. Vincent and Justice 1:01:49

2M ago1:01:49

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Episode 1 of the Listmas Podcast hosted by Jason Jefferies and Reggie Worth is here! Listmas is a magical day that celebrates the best albums released in a calendar year. Discussed this episode is the concept of Listmas, what makes a great album, Final Summer by Cloud Nothings, People Who Aren't There Anymore by Future Islands, Blu Wav by Granddadd…

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286--Bookin' w/ R.A. Cramblitt 33:23

2M ago33:23

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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…

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285--Bookin' w/ Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy 35:17

2M ago35:17

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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, an…

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284--Bookin' w/ Jeffrey D. Simon 24:31

2M ago24:31

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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 te…

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283--Bookin' w/ Cally Fiedorek 32:15

3M ago32:15

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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, bei…

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282--Bookin' w/ Georgann Eubanks 40:20

3M ago40:20

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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 Fo…

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281--Bookin' w/Daniel Wallace 44:42

3M ago44:42

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Daniel Wallace, who discusses his newest book This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Topics of discussion include teaching overseas, delineations between before and after, digesting …

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280--Pale Fire Podcast w/ Dan Hawkins 53:27

3M ago53:27

53:27

This week, I am joined by Dan Hawkins, librarian at the Citadel and repeat Bookin' podcast guest (see the Emergency Cormac McCarthy episode). Dan discusses Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest novels of all-time. Topics of discussion include Robert Frost, J.R.R. Tolkien, unreliable narrators, the very loud amusement park right outside…

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279--Bookin' w/ Katya Apekina 39:30

4M ago39:30

39:30

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Katya Apekina for a discussion of her new novel Mother Doll, which is published by our friends at The Overlook Press. Topics of conversation include Two Dollar Radio, the Overlook Press, baby bedtime routines, visitations, September 11th, video stores, physical media vs. digital media, organization, ghos…

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278--Bookin' w/ Andy Lee Roth 29:13

4M ago29:13

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Andy Lee Roth, one of the editors--along with Mickey Huff--of Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024, which is published by our friends at The Censored Press and 7 Stories Press. Topics of conversation include the upcoming election cycle, propaganda, China and North Korea, media literacy, center…

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277--Bookin' w/ Roger D. Rapoport 34:42

4M ago34:42

34:42

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Roger D. Rapoport, who discusses his latest novel Searching for Patty Hearst, which is published by our friends at Lexographic Press. Topics of conversation include filmmaking, travel guides, Lexographic Press, Rupert Murdoch, Succession, music of the decades, William Randolph Hearst…

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276--Bookin' w/ Brian Allen Carr 35:34

4M ago35:34

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Aspen Words finalist and Wonderland Book Award-winner Brian Allen Carr, who discusses his latest novel Bad Foundations, which is published by our friends at Clash Books. Topics of conversation include Muncie, Indiana, Taylor Swift, crawl spaces, Mary Louise Kelly, missed opportunities, living to work vs.…

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275--Bookin' w/ Zachary Pace 46:10

5M ago46:10

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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 P…

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SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE | Author, Dan Vasquenza, of A Fatherless Curiosity 23:38

5M ago23:38

23:38

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Visit our website at KIRKLEYHENNESSY.COM | CLICK HERE This is a MUST LISTEN for all the Dads! Newly released and published book on Amazon, (link below) A Fatherless Curiosity that has twenty chapters from twenty authors, also fathers, sharing their unique experiences and approach on fatherhood. It's an incredible story and …

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274--Bookin' w/ Jill McCorkle 36:10

5M ago36:10

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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, creat…

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273--Bookin' w/ Paul Andersen 25:47

5M ago25:47

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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,…

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272--Bookin' w/ Matthew J.C. Clark 34:13

5M ago34:13

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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, Checko…

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271--Bookin’ w/ Ben Goldfarb 24:32

5M ago24:32

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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 tha…

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270--Bookin’ w/ Kate Brody 31:15

6M ago31:15

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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 Ban…

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269--Bookin’ w/ Angela C. Sutton 26:19

6M ago26:19

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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 p…

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MUSIC TRIVIA [Road Trip Trivia New Year's Edition] Brewmaster Jason and Kirkley 53:40

6M ago53:40

53:40

Music Powered by SpotifyTHANK YOU FOR LISTENING!DETAILED SHOW NOTES FOR THIS AND ALL EPISODES LIVE HERE AT KIRKLEYHENNESSY.COM | CLICK HERE Kirkley and Jason host another show live from NoFo Brewery in Cumming, GA for a New Year's round... songs that keep you dancing. AND, some really great music trivia #musictriva for ya. Buckle up, and drive safe…

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268--Bookin’ w/ Leonard Grob and John K. Roth 56:22

6M ago56:22

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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. Top…

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267--Bookin’ w/ Joshua Mohr 0:10

6M ago0:10

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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 kn…

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SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE: Make-A-Wish Foundation's Dave Lawson and the Gainesville, GA "GET UP FEST" March 9, 2024 3:35

7M ago3:35

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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Today's show brought to you by SHURE microphones and Studio On The Spot, KIRKLEYHENNESSY.COM | CLICK HERE Please take a quick listen if you're interested in helping the Make-A-Wish Foundation with a Metro Atlanta, Georgia USA area music festival all for the kids. It's called the GET UP FEST! Dave Lawson is here to tell us a…

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266--Bookin’ w/ Brooke Lockyer 22:51

7M ago22:51

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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 …

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265--Bookin’ w/ Ray Robertson 47:31

7M ago47:31

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This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes back Ray Robertson, author of All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows, which is published by our friends at Biblioasis. Topics of conversation include how a Grateful Dead concert is like life, the Grateful Dead vs. Taylor Swift and Beyonce, Bob Weir's approach to guitar vs. Jerry Garcia's, Ph…

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264--Bookin’ w/ William T. Vollmann 46:10

7M ago46:10

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann, author of Shadows of Love and Shadows of Loneliness, which are published by our friends at An Unnamed Press and Rare Bird Books. Topics of conversation include mortality, the price of convenience, hearts that are or are not troubled by atrocity, the percept…

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263--Bookin’ w/ Lexi Freiman 32:32

7M ago32:32

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Lexi Freiman, author of The Book of Ayn, which is published by our friends at Catapult. Topics of conversation include Australia, Ayn Rand, cancel culture, narcissism, The Fountainhead, Michelangelo's David, Succession, yoga pants, and much more. Copies of The Book of Ayn can be purchased here with FREE …

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MUSIC TRIVIA [Road Trip Trivia with Kirkley & Brew Master Jason] - 90's ALTERNATIVE AND THEN SOME! 53:43

7M ago53:43

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Music Powered by SpotifyTHANK YOU FOR LISTENING!DETAILED SHOW NOTES FOR THIS AND ALL EPISODES LIVE HERE AT KIRKLEYHENNESSY.COM | CLICK HERE Kirkley and Jason get at it with 90's music and this episode is one to be heard! Warning... if you like beer and/or wanna know more about it, Brew Master Jason and friends of the show get in on some deep-cuts b…

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262--Bookin’ w/ Bennett Sims 30:13

8M ago30:13

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Bennett Sims, who discusses his new book Other Minds and Other Stories, which is published by our friends at Two Dollar Radio. Topics of conversation include the University of Iowa, flash fiction, mummies, zombie novels, David Foster Wallace and Carmen Maria Machado, cell phones, Alf…

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261--Bookin’ w/ Meredith Ritchie 29:29

8M ago29:29

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Meredith Ritchie, author of Poster Girls, which is published by our friends at Warren Publishing. Topics of conversation include acute empty nest syndrome, raising triplets, the World War II-era in Charlotte, NC, attitudes towards women and minorities in the 1940s, church, book clubs, and much more. Copi…

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260--Bookin’ with Nikki Marmery 37:59

8M ago37:59

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Nikki Marmery, author of Lilith, which is published by our friends at Alcove Press. Topics of conversation include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Adam as a man who was never satisfied, Diablo IV, Lilith Fair, Lilith as the first woman, logic and the Tower of Babel, The Matrix, and much more. Copies of Lilith ca…

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259--Bookin’ w/ Jeff Patterson 37:46

8M ago37:46

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by coach Jeff Patterson, who discusses his new book The Big Thing Effect: How to Transform Your Life Forever, which is published by our friends at Aspen Success Press. Topics of conversation include big things, how death can lend a new perspective to life, the Denver Nuggets and winning something vs. watchi…

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258--Bookin’ w/ Farah Ali 31:24

8M ago31:24

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Farah Ali, author of The River, The Town, which is published by our friends at Dzanc Books. Topics of conversation include geographical locations with no source of water, why a mother hates her son, men who hide themselves behind television, propaganda, religion, more money more problems, poetic deaths, …

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257--Booklin’ w/ David Menconi 28:03

9M ago28:03

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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by former NC Piedmont Laureate David Menconi, who discusses his new book Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music, which is published by our friends at UNC Press. Topics of conversation include IBMA and Wide Open Bluegrass, the Union Grove Old Time Fiddler's Con…

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