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Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

408 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 335 ratings

Just the Right Book is a podcast hosted by Roxanne Coady, owner of famous independent bookstore R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, that will help you discover new and note-worthy books in all genres, give you unique insights into your favorite authors, and bring you up to date with what’s happening in the literary world.

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Has Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong? with Daniel Pink

March 14, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Daniel Pink joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his latest book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, out now from Riverhead Books. Buy the book from RJ Julia: The Power of Regret - Daniel Pink Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on Survival

March 07, 2024 15:01 - 1 hour

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Edith Eger joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, The Gift. ________________________________ An eminent psychologist and one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors old enough to remember life in the camps, Dr. Edith Eger has worked with veterans, military personnel, and victims of physical and mental trauma. She lives in La Jolla, California. She is the author of the award-winning book The Choice and The Gift. Buy the book from RJ ...

A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America with John Wood Sweet

February 29, 2024 12:00 - 49 minutes

A story about how much has changed and not changed since the first rape trial in American history. Buy the paperback book from RJ Julia: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America - John Wood Sweet Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prophet of Freedom with David Blight

February 22, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour

On the 100 anniversary of the death of abolitionist, orator, critic and radical patriot Frederick Douglass, we revisit the Pulitzer Prize winning biography by David Blight. In 2018, 200 years since the birth of Frederick Douglass, we received the first major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by prize-winning historian and Yale Professor David Blight is based on nearly a lifetime of research as well as letters and private documentation to which ...

An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom with Llyon Woo

February 15, 2024 12:00 - 56 minutes

This week we will re-air the podcast with Ilyon Woo which first ran on April 6, 2023. Her book, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom is now available in paperback. Buy the paperback book from RJ Julia: Master Slave Husband Wife from RJ Julia - Ilyon Woo Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Does It Mean to Be Human with Lori Gottlieb

February 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic‘s weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times. She is on the Advisory Council for Bring Change to Mind and has appeared in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, CNN, and NPR’s “Fresh A...

Shorts #23 - A Quick Look at What's New

February 01, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes

In today's short Roxanne sits down with Bill Goldstein to discuss what they're reading. Buy the books from RJ Julia My Friends - Hisham Matar The Fury - Alex Michaelides You Only Call When You're in Trouble - Stephen McCauley Yellowface - R. F. Kuang Cocktails with George and Martha - Philip Gefter I will Bear Witness - Victor Klemperer Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Sign up for our po...

Study That Defined How We Diagnose Mental Illness with Susannah Cahalan

January 25, 2024 12:00 - 56 minutes

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She writes for the New York Post. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn. Buy the book from RJ Julia: Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Sub...

The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer with Dr. Azra Raza

January 18, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes

According to the NIH, there has been a seventy-percent decline annually in the death rate from cardiovascular disease in the last fifty years and a one percent decline annually in the death rate from cancer over the last fifty years. How can this be when we keep hearing about great new drug discoveries and immunotherapy advances? And if true, isn't there another way to approach the nightmare that is cancer?  This week on Just the Right Book, a rerun from Dr. Azra Raza who join Roxanne Coady t...

The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen with David Brooks

January 11, 2024 11:27 - 51 minutes

David Brooks dives into the topic of human connection and its importance in today’s society. Roxanne Coady sits down with the journalist and author to discuss his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen Buy the book from RJ Julia: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen - David Brooks Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] L...

JTRB Shorts #22 - A talk with Bethanne Patrick

January 04, 2024 15:17 - 27 minutes

In today's short Roxanne sits down with The Book Maven Bethanne Patrick. She is a podcaster, author, and book critic for the LA times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Lit Hub. Bethanne's book Life B: Overcoming Double Depression Listen to Bethanne's podcast Missing Pages Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JTRB Shorts #21 - A talk with Bethanne Patrick

January 04, 2024 15:17 - 27 minutes

In today's short Roxanne sits down with The Book Maven Bethanne Patrick. She is a podcaster, author, and book critic for the LA times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Lit Hub. Bethanne's book Life B: Overcoming Double Depression Listen to Bethanne's podcast Missing Pages Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America with Gretchen Morgenson

December 28, 2023 12:19 - 55 minutes

Roxanne Coady talks with Gretchen Morgenson author of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America Pulitzer Prize­­­–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson investigate the insidious world of private equity and reveal how it puts our entire economy and us at risk. Buy the book from RJ Julia How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America - Gretchen Morgenson Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo C...

JTRB Shorts #21 - A quick look at what's new

December 21, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes

A look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about some new books. Buy the books from RJ Julia Possession - A. S. Byatt Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown My Name is Barbra - Barbra Streisand Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Rachel Maddow Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!

December 14, 2023 12:48 - 45 minutes

Hear from the booksellers themselves as RJ Julia Bookseller staff Lori Fazio and Andrew Brennan join Roxanne Coady to explore the best books to give as gifts to the readers in your life.   2023 RJ Julia Holiday Book Selection Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JTRB Short #20 - New York Times Top 10 Best Sellers

December 07, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes

Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review talks about the Top 10 books of 2023 and how they get on the list. Buy the NYT top 10 bestsellers books from RJ Julia The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Eastbound - Maylis De Kerangal The Fraud - Zadie Smith North Woods - Daniel Mason The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs - Kerry Howley Fire Weather - John Vaillant Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo Some Peopl...

Democracy Awakening with Heather Cox Richardson

November 30, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes

Roxanne Coady talks with Heather Cox Richardson the bestselling author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America    Historian and author of the newsletter Letters From An American explores the roots and complexities of American democracy, the challenges we face in the present, and the potential paths forward. Buy the book from RJ Julia Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Ema...

JTRB Shorts #19 - A quick look at what's new

November 23, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes

A look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about some new books that can help keep you distracted with all that's going on in the world. Buy the books from RJ Julia Signal Fires - Dani Shapiro Edith Holler - Edward Carey Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride I Must Be Dreaming - Roz Chast Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Enough with Cassidy Hutchinson

November 16, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes

Roxanne Coady talks with Cassidy Hutchinson about her new book Enough. Cassidy’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Buy the book from RJ Julia Enough - Cassidy Hutchinson Sign up for our podcast newsl...

JTRB Shorts #18 - A quick look at what's new

November 09, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes

A look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about new books that are educating about the facts about the crisis in the Middle East. For a complete list of books the RJ Julia recommends you can go to rjjulia.com/podcast. Buy the books from RJ Julia A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - David Fromkin A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy - Nathan Thrall The Iron Cage: The Story of the ...

The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher With John Sargent

November 02, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour

Roxanne Coady talks with John Sargent about his many adventures in book publishing at a time when the industry met many challenges and some of the authors and other characters he worked with along the way. Buy the book from RJ Julia Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher - John Sargent Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

JTRB Shorts #17 - A quick look at what's new

October 26, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes

A look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about new books from Lauren Groff, Adam Nagourney, and Jacques Pepin. Plus a special look at Diana Athill's Stet: An Editors Life. Buy the books from RJ Julia The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism - Adam Nagourney Stet: An Editor's Life - Diana Athill The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen - Jacques Pépin Sign up for our podcast newsl...

Time’s Echo with Jeremy Eichler

October 19, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes

Roxanne Coady talks with Jeremy Eichler the author of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance – how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of wartime past – specifically looking at the postwar works of Strauss, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, and Britten. Buy the book from RJ Julia Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscr...

Cooking My Way: Live with Jacques Pépin

October 12, 2023 11:27 - 52 minutes

Roxanne and Jacques sit down in front of a live audience in Madison, CT to discuss his career, his social media success, and his new book Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking. Buy the book from RJ Julia Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking - Jacques Pépin Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Banned Books

October 05, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes

Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein discuss Banned Books Week and the effect of banning books in our schools and libraries. Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JTRB Shorts #16 - A quick look at what's new

September 28, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Amy Winehouse: In Her Words - Amy Winehouse The Deadline: Essays - Jill Lepore The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight - Andrew Leland Witness: Stories - Jamel Brinkley Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star with Cydny Bullens

September 21, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour

Rock star Cydny Bullens gets very personal with Roxanne Coady about a life in rock 'n roll, meeting Elton John, grave personal loss and a late life transformation in his memoir, TransElectric: My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star. "I didn't feel safe and I still deal with that today." Buy the book from RJ Julia TransElectric: My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star - Cydny Bullens Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected]...

JTRB Shorts #15 - A quick look at what's new

September 14, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 6 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Happiness Falls - Angie Kim Golden Gate - Amy Chua Time's Mouth - Edan Lepucki Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to be Good with Elise Loehnen

September 07, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes

Roxanne Coady and Elise Loehnen explore the Seven Deadly Sins—the ancient ideas of morality that still control and distort women’s lives today—and how trusting our natural instincts can return us to a more balanced, peaceful, and spiritually way to live.  Buy the book from RJ Julia On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good - Elise Loehnen  Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcas...

JTRB Shorts #14 - A quick look at what's new

August 31, 2023 13:51 - 23 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 6 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Cousins - Aurora Venturini The Nix - Nathan Hill The Fraud - Zadie Smith Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjul...

How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment with Anthony T. Kronman

August 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Anthony T. Kronman to discuss his book, After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy, out now from Yale University Press. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law and a former dean at Yale Law School. He is the author of Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan and Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. He lives on Block Island, Rhode Island. Buy...

JTRB Shorts #13 - A quick look at what's new

August 17, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 5 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Old God's Time - Sebastian Barry Cheri and the End of Cheri - Colette The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs I Meant It Once - Kate Doyle Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

The Land of Hope and Fear with Isabel Kerschner

August 10, 2023 13:49 - 1 hour

The New York Times correspondent in Israel, Isabel Kerschner talks with Roxanne Coady about the state of Israel today, the uniqueness of this moment and the divisions among Israelis in her new book, The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul. Buy the book from RJ Julia The Land of Hope and Fear Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

JTRB Shorts #12 - A quick look at what's new

August 03, 2023 11:31 - 23 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos - Judy Batalion Onlookers - Ann Beattie Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain with Dasha Kiper

July 27, 2023 11:21 - 54 minutes

After getting a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in caregiver for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer’s disease. For a year, she endured the emotional strain of looking after a person whose condition disrupts the rules of time, order, and continuity. Inspired by her own experience and her work counseling caregivers in the subsequent decade, Kiper offers an entirely new way to understand the symbiotic relationship between patients and those tending to them. H...

JTRB Shorts #11 - A quick look at what's new

July 20, 2023 11:18 - 20 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman Day - Michael Cunningham My Husband - Maud Ventura Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. with Alan Murray

July 13, 2023 11:12 - 56 minutes

Roxnne Coady and Alan Murray discuss his book, Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. Alan Murray talks about how corporate leaders in America are at the center of a movement for social change and economic progress. Buy the book from RJ Julia Tomorrow's Capitalist Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JTRB Shorts #10 - A quick look at what's new

July 06, 2023 10:31 - 20 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia The 272 - Rachel L. Swarns Just Kids - Patti Smith Tom Lake - Ann Patchett Fires in the Dark - Kay Redfield Jamison Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

June 29, 2023 11:12 - 53 minutes

Roxanne Coady talks to Ada Calhoun the author of Also A Poet about restoring her father's legacy by a discovery of Frank O'Hara. Buy the book from RJ Julia Also a Poet Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JTRB Shorts #9 - A quick look at what's new

June 22, 2023 11:22 - 21 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Good Night, Irene - Luis Alberto Urrea Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead Kiss Me In The Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions From A Happy Marriage - Helen Ellis Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz

June 15, 2023 10:51 - 1 hour

Luiz Schwarcz on his ordeal with bipolar disorder and the long echo of a Holocaust family story. The author of The Absent Moon talks with Roxanne Coady about family, generational trauma, a short childhood, and a long depression. Buy the book from RJ Julia The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

JTRB Shorts #8 - A quick look at what's new

June 08, 2023 09:50 - 23 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia King: A Life - Jonathan Eig Always Running - Luis J. Rodriguez The Guest - Emma Cline Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Children of the State with Jeff Hobbs

June 01, 2023 11:58 - 56 minutes

Roxanne talks with Jeff Hobbs about stories of hope and survival in the juvenile justice system, Children of the State, Jeff Hobbs new book is a deep look at juvenile detention and the path to justice - how internal and external factors put so many of our youth at risk. Buy Jeff's book from RJ Julia Children of the State Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

JTRB Shorts #7 - A quick look at what's new

May 25, 2023 11:35 - 23 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia The Late Americans - Brandon Taylor Trust - Hernan Diaz My Hijacking - Martha Hodes G Men - Beverly Gage Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed [replay]

May 18, 2023 11:55 - 51 minutes

Roxanne revisits her interview with Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. The Portland resident, who's popular advice column Dear Sugar inspired the podcast Dear Sugars. Her book Tiny Beautiful Things has now been turned into a TV series that is now streaming on Hulu. Buy Cheryl's books from RJ Julia Tiny Beautiful Things Wild Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more abou...

JTRB Shorts #6 - A quick look at what's new

May 11, 2023 10:13 - 20 minutes

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill talk about Don Winslow, Anne Berest's The Postcard, SA Cosby and a story by Toni Morrison. Buy these books from RJ Julia The Postcard by Anne Berest City of Dreams by Don Winslow City on Fire by Don Winslow City in Ruin by Don Winslow All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby Recitatif by Toni Morrison Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad ...

The Critics Daughter with Priscilla Gilman

May 04, 2023 11:27 - 53 minutes

Roxanne talks with Priscilla Gilman, author of A Critics Daughter about the inner sanctum of family and her charmed life with her critic father, Richard Gilman.  Buy The Critic's Daughter from RJ Julia Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JTRB Shorts #5 - A quick look at what's new

April 27, 2023 12:29 - 29 minutes

Roxanne and Bill talk about new books in the market and take a close look at Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful and Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street. Buy these books from RJ Julia Pineapple Street Hello Beautiful Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King

April 20, 2023 13:52 - 54 minutes

Neil King Jr talks about his 330 mile walk from his home in Washington DC to NYC Central Park. American Ramble is a walk across contemporary America through some of our oldest common ground.  Get a signed copy of American Ramble from RJ Julia Sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King

April 20, 2023 13:52 - 55 minutes

Neil King Jr talks about his 330 mile walk from his home in Washington DC to NYC Central Park. American Ramble is a walk across contemporary America through some of our oldest common ground.  Get a signed copy of American Ramble from RJ Julia Sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests

Anne Bogel
2 Episodes
Daphne Merkin
2 Episodes
Elizabeth Strout
2 Episodes
Madeleine Albright
2 Episodes
Michael Connelly
2 Episodes
A.J. Jacobs
1 Episode
Alice Hoffman
1 Episode
Aminatou Sow
1 Episode
ann friedman
1 Episode
Ann Patchett
1 Episode
Chris Murphy
1 Episode
Dean Koontz
1 Episode
Diana Gabaldon
1 Episode
Frederick Douglass
1 Episode
Isabel Allende
1 Episode
James B. Stewart
1 Episode
James Patterson
1 Episode
John Grisham
1 Episode
Julie Orringer
1 Episode
Lori Gottlieb
1 Episode
Michael Chabon
1 Episode
Nicole Krauss
1 Episode
Scott Turow
1 Episode

Books

The Common Good
1 Episode
The White House
1 Episode

Twitter Mentions

@mkindness 2 Episodes
@rebeccaschinsky 1 Episode
@missliberty 1 Episode