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 with parents, diving when you don't know how to swim, Oxycontin, artists in West Virginia, theft at The Pink Pony, and much more. Copies of Shae can be ordered here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.
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