168--Bookin’ w/ Mesha Maren

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Mesha Maren, author of Perpetual West, which is published by our friends at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  Topics of conversation include traveling in the COVID-era, Roberto Bolaño, literary allusions in works of literature, the idea of originality, stalking Cormac McCarthy, Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Lucha Libre wrestling, how wrestling is like a presidential election, and much more.  Copies of Perpetual West can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.