HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU events, interviews, reviews, and more

Hello, sports journalist and religion podcaster Jason Kirk here. My exvangelical coming-of-age novel — Hell Is a World Without You — is good, according to a bunch of people linked below.

A best-seller according to USA Today’s booklist, Bookshop.org, IndieReader, and a handful of Amazon lists, it enabled me to pledge over $50,000 to LGBTQ charity the Trevor Project, with $46,000 already donated.

The book is available pretty much everywhere paperbacks, ebooks, and hardcovers are sold. Audiobook is in the works.

If you’d like to talk about getting a review copy, doing an interview, hosting an event, or some other idea we haven’t tried yet, holler: jasonkirkbook at g mail dot com.

Upcoming IRL book events:

• Wednesday, April 24, 7 p.m. CT in the English building (room 301) at the University of Alabama. Free book signing/reading/Q&A/etc with profs Mike Altman (religious studies) and Van Newell (English). Hardcovers available for sale. And then we’re headed to the bar.

More to come. If you’d like to host us (I am not very picky about details and do not want to deal with most of them personally, but LOVE to show up at places), holler: jasonkirkbook at gmail.

Completed IRL book events:

• Monday Night Garage in Atlanta with the Shutdown Fullcast:

• Northstreet Taproom in Madison, Wisconsin with Mason Mennenga and Matt Brown: Audio on our Patreon

• Pendleton Bookshop near Clemson, South Carolina with Anna Sandy Elrod, Shannon Finck, and Joshua Martin

• A Novel Idea in Philadelphia with my kid

• St. Clare's Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor with Jane Coaston and Ace Anbender: Video to come

• Also at St. Clare’s in Ann Arbor: I preached during their Sunday morning service. Audio to come on our Patreon

Editorial book reviews

• Book and Film Globe by Jake Harris

• Dirtbag Christian by Jennifer C. Martin

• Independent Book Review

• Kirkus Reviews

• Literary Transgressions

• Not the Sun by Andrew Klema

• The Post-Evangelical Post by Blake Chastain

• pcvulpes

• Publishers Weekly

• Rach Against the Machine

• Readers’ Favorite

• Sojourners by Tyler Huckabee

Public review roundups

• Amazon

• Apple

• Goodreads

• Storygraph

Praise blurbs in general

• Lots of those!

Print interviews about the book

• Action Cookbook with Scott Hines

• Awful Announcing with Andrew Bucholtz

• Channel 6 with Spencer Hall

• Christianity Today with Bonnie Kristian

• Dane Johns

• Grift of the Holy Spirit with Tony Ginocchio

• Penguin Random House’s Hazlitt with Anthony Oliveira

• Religion Dispatches with Mike Altman

Audio promo for — that’s right — the book

• Big Screen Sports with Alex McDaniel and Kyle Bandujo

• Casual Diehard with Jesse Spector

• City Saint / Country Saint with Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico

• Decent Christian Music Talk with Eric McClanahan, Josh Olson, and Kylan Savage

• The Distraction with Drew Magary and David Roth

• Evangelicalish with April Ajoy

• Exvangelical with Blake Chastain

• Fun Sexy Bible Time with Casey Haas and Matthew Pierce

• Hand in the Dirt with Michael Felder, Michael Surber, and Stephen Hartzell

• HM Magazine’s BlackSheep Podcast with Mason Mennenga, Cullen Mack, and Justin Hunter

• How Did You Get Here? with Jamie Howard

• Lit Lit with Dani Burford and Andrew Klema

• Message Board Genuises

• NPR’s SouthBound with Tommy Tomlinson

• Readirect with Abigail Hewins and Emily Rojas

• Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

• Unanimous Decision with Daniel Palmer

• USA Today’s For The Watercooler with Caroline Darney and Matt Scalici

• Veterans of Culture Wars with Zach Malm and David Lester

• The Vinyl Preacher with Zach Parris

• Waitin’ Since Last Saturday with Will Leitch

• You Have Permission with Dan Koch

• And of course the Vacation Bible School Patreon

Public Q&As about — you guessed it — the book

• Goodreads

Once again, if you wanna talk about doing any of this sorta thing: jasonkirkbook at g mail dot com.