"This is the book of our times, not because it wants to be, but because it has to be. Politics and pop culture are just garnish in an exploration of what it means to believe in God and Art in a world of bad actors playing God." --Cara Cunningham "Like any bold work of art, Jack Mason himself provokes either love or hate--a great hallmark of all things worthwhile. For to inspire ambivalence or apathy is an omen that one or one's work is unable to cut deep enough, to be candid, to transgress what is merely acceptable in favor of what dares to move the spirit. Jack reliably proves to be incisive in his observations, acerbic in his wit, and courageous in his willingness to bare hard truths. Plunging into the world of The Perfume Nationalist is a thrill." --Scout Dixon West, perfumer and musician "A work of autofiction, and a rare example of the genre that succeeds because the person telling it actually has a story worth telling. With this book, Jack looks back on that story for the first time.

He chronicles his rise as a podcaster as though it were an existential novel, full of drama, betrayal, obsession, and the undeniable courage required to follow one's own vision against it all. TPN is one of the defining stories of our strange little subculture. A masterful podcast has become a work of literature worthy of it." --Adam Lehrer, Tablet.