Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
433 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 335 ratingsJust 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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JTRB Shorts #7 - A quick look at what's new
May 25, 2023 11:35 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBIn 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]
Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed [replay]
May 18, 2023 11:55 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBRoxanne 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]
JTRB Shorts #6 - A quick look at what's new
May 11, 2023 10:13 - 20 minutes - 19 MBIn 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]
The Critics Daughter with Priscilla Gilman
May 04, 2023 11:27 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBRoxanne 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]
JTRB Shorts #5 - A quick look at what's new
April 27, 2023 12:29 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBRoxanne 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]
A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King
April 20, 2023 13:52 - 55 minutesNeil 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 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBNeil 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!
JTRB Shorts #4 - A quick look at what's new
April 13, 2023 11:22 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBRoxanne and Bill Goldstein are back again to discuss what they are reading in the new Just the Right Book Shorts episode. The books discussed in todays episode: Hello Beautiful Old God's Time 50 Days of Solitude Sign up for our podcast newsletter!
An Epic Story from Slavery to Freedom with Ilyon Woo
April 06, 2023 12:47 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBRoxanne discusses the remarkable story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through determination and disguise with Ilyon Woo, the author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Story from Slavery to Freedom. Buy Master Slave Husband Wife from RJ Julia Sign up for our podcast newsletter!
JTRB Shorts #3 - A quick look at what's new
March 30, 2023 19:57 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBRoxanne and Bill Goldstein discuss what they are reading, bestsellers, and what coming up that is keeping them awake at night in the new Just the Right Book Shorts. Sign up for our podcast newsletter!
JTRB Shorts - A quick look at what's new
March 30, 2023 19:57 - 22 minutesRoxanne and Bill Goldstein discuss what they are reading, bestsellers, and what coming up that is keeping them awake at night in the new Just the Right Book Shorts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Every Family Has A Story with Julia Samuel
March 23, 2023 13:32 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBPsychotherapist Julia Samuel joins Roxanne to discuss transgenerational trauma. They discuss the twelve touchstones for family well being and also explore the idea that the relationships that touch us the most are often the ones that can hurt us the most. Buy Every Family Has a Story from RJ Julia Sign up for our podcast newsletter!
JTRB Shorts - A quick look at what's new
March 16, 2023 13:57 - 17 minutesRoxanne is joined again by Bill Goldstein to talk about what they are reading now, the bestsellers and what's coming out soon that has caught their eye. What we are reading now: Burnam Wood Perish Bestsellers we are talking about: Its OK to be Angry About Capitalism The Silent Patient What’s new that we are excited about: The Lost Americans American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
JTRB Shorts #2 - A quick look at what's new
March 16, 2023 13:57 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBRoxanne is joined again by Bill Goldstein to talk about what they are reading now, the bestsellers and what's coming out soon that has caught their eye. What we are reading now: Burnam Wood Perish Bestsellers we are talking about: Its OK to be Angry About Capitalism The Silent Patient What’s new that we are excited about: The Lost Americans American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal Sign up for our podcast newsletter
American Women and the Fight for Equality with Elisabeth Griffith
March 09, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBElisabeth Griffith discusses the history of equal rights for women, the 19th Amendment, and how a century later all women are still grappling to secure their rights. Buy the book here Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected] Sign up for our podcast newsletter
What Are We Reading?
March 02, 2023 13:00 - 19 minutesRoxanne introduces a new biweekly podcast, Just the Right Book Shorts in conversation with Bill Goldstein. Find out about new books, what they’re reading now, and commentary on bestsellers. What are we reading now I Have Some Questions for You The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Best Seller Lessons in Chemistry It Starts With Us New and exciting! Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Hang the Moon Email us at: [email protected] Learn more about ...
JTRB Shorts #1 - A quick look at what's new
March 02, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBRoxanne introduces a new biweekly podcast, Just the Right Book Shorts in conversation with Bill Goldstein. Find out about new books, what they’re reading now, and commentary on bestsellers. What are we reading now I Have Some Questions for You The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Best Seller Lessons in Chemistry It Starts With Us New and exciting! Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Hang the Moon Email us at: [email protected]
Unscripted by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams
February 23, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBRoxanne and James Stewart discuss the family drama and boardroom backstabbing in his new book co-authored with Rachel Abrams, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy. Buy the book here Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: [email protected]
Courtney Maum on Exploring Depression and Forgiveness Through Horseback Riding
February 09, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book, Courtney Maum talks about her exploration with depression and forgiveness in her memoir, The Year of the Horses, by revisiting her past and finding an old love in horseback riding. Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre, Touch, and I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, and an award-winning guide for writers, Before and After the Book Deal. A writing coach and educator, Courtney's mission is to help people hold on to the joy of art-maki...
Billy Collins on the Small Poem
January 27, 2023 14:41 - 53 minutes - 49 MBPoet Billy Collins joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his new collection, Musical Tables: Poems and the power and pleasure of the small poem.
Looking back at Paul Newman and The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
January 12, 2023 13:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBClea Newman Soderlund and editor, David Rosenthal talk with Roxanne on the process of finding and compiling a series of interviews conducted over a period of time and writings from Paul Newman to create the posthumous memoir of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. Listen in as we discover the celebrated actor, husband and father, Paul Newman who does not hold back in this intimate and candid memoir.
Jacques Pepin and The Art of the Chicken
December 29, 2022 14:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBLegendary chef and painter, Jacques Pepin shares the story of his life with Roxanne Coady. The award-winning chef looks at life through the essence of the bird - the chicken, the most democratic food in the world.
The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
December 15, 2022 13:45 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBJoin Roxanne Coady and the staff of RJ Julia Booksellers as we explore the best books of the year to give as gifts to the readers in your life. See the full list of books discussed here.
Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?
December 01, 2022 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBThomas Jefferson considered Samuel Adams the earliest, most active, and most persevering of the revolution. Yet when we think of the founders, his name is often missing, submerged by other founders, his cousin John Adams or John Hancock, or obviously Washington and Jefferson himself. Now, Stacy Schiff does what she does brilliantly in The Revolutionary: Samuel Adam, using her Pulitzer Prize0winning skills as a biographer to bring to life the revolution, the politics, the propaganda, and the m...
How the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the Generations
November 18, 2022 12:56 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBIt is not often that you read a book that is both heartbreaking, infuriating, inspiring, eye-opening, and riveting. Nicholas Dawidoff’s new book, The Other Side of Prospect, brilliantly uses the particular story of the Newhallville neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, and a young black man wrongly convicted of murder to tell the universal story of the violence, poverty, and injustice that exists in too many of our American cities. There is a reason Nicholas has been a finalist for the Puli...
Dani Shapiro: How Writing Fiction Can Expose More of Yourself Than Writing Memoir
November 03, 2022 20:51 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBSignal Fires is Dani Shapiro’s first novels in fifteen years, and has everything most of us want in fiction: indelible characters, a book we can’t put down, and the ability to provoke how we think about our lives by understanding of their lives. She joins Roxanne Coady for a live conversation held at RJ Julia Booksellers. Dani Shapiro is a best-selling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets (now in its seventh season). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, T...
How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History
October 20, 2022 11:12 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJohn Wood Sweet is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the former director of UNC’s Program in Sexuality Studies. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, and the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, among others. His first book, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830, was a finalist for the F...
David Dennis, Jr.: Why American Civil Rights Activists Should Be Treated as War Veterans
October 06, 2022 13:29 - 53 minutes - 49 MBMany of us may know the broad outline of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But for most of us, the details, the headline names, the level of malevolent violence and the horrific sacrifices were, at best, vague. But David Dennis, Jr., in his new book, The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride, poignantly and vividly gives us an intimate portrait of the personal side of the civil rights movement. David wrote this book in collaboration with his father, David D...
Tina Brown: While the Monarchy Will Not End, It Will Shrink Nevertheless
September 22, 2022 13:48 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Tina Brown to discuss her new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil, out now from Crown. Please note: This episode was recorded before the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II. Tina Brown is an award-winning writer, the former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and the founder of The Daily Beast and of the live event platform Women in the World. She is th...
Anthony T. Kronman on How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment
September 08, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Anthony T. Kronman to discuss his new 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 live...
How Do We Eradicate the Great Challenge of Our Age: Unconscious Bias and Discrimination?
August 25, 2022 14:51 - 1 hour - 63 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, we revisit our conversation with Jessica Nordell discussing her book, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias, out now from Metropolitan Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! ________________________________ Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic, and many othe...
How Do We Eradicate the Great Challenge of Our Age: Unconscious Bias and Discrimination?
August 25, 2022 14:51 - 1 hourIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, we revisit our conversation with Jessica Nordell discussing her book, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias, out now from Metropolitan Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! ________________________________ Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic, and many othe...
Elizabeth Alexander: How Do You Keep Yourself Safe But Not Live in Fear?
August 11, 2022 14:03 - 1 hour - 62 MBWhen we think of racism, we often think of actions, obstacles, systems. What we often overlook is the power of images, movement, art, and words. They represent the power of both harm and hope. Elizabeth Alexander in her new book, The Trayvon Generation, uses this prism to share poetry, art, and film. And along with her exquisite, evocative language, we find ourselves educated, provoked and challenged. Elizabeth is singularly equipped to tell us this story. She is a poet. Many were introduced ...
Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel: Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust
July 28, 2022 13:15 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBThis week on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel joins Roxanne to discuss their books, The Invisible Bridge and Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love as well as Mala Kacenberg’s new book Mala’s Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II. Julie Orringer is the author of the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She is the winner of The Paris Review’s Discovery Pr...
Zain Asher: Never Let the Perception of Yourself Hold You Back
July 15, 2022 13:16 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBZain Ejiofor Asher was born to first-generation Nigerian parents in South London. She was raised by her mother after losing her father in a tragic car accident when she was just 5. A graduate of Oxford University and Columbia University, she is currently the anchor of One World with Zain Asher on CNN International. Ejiofor Asher’s brothers are Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, successful entrepreneur Obinze. Her sister Kandibe is a medical doctor. She is passionate about her family, car...
What Should You Read This Summer?
June 30, 2022 11:57 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWhether you’re traveling or not this summer, right now is the perfect time to catch up on all the great books that have recently been published. In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Roxanne talks with critic and book reviewer Bill Goldstein to guide you through which books you want to read, have read, are thinking about reading, or you should know about. Books discussed include: Geraldine Brooks, Horse (Viking) Margot Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (Pantheon)...
Linda Greenhouse on When the Republican Party Was the Party of Reproductive Choice
June 16, 2022 12:38 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Linda Greenhouse returns to discuss the recent Roe v. Wade investigation leak and her book, Before Roe V. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling. Listen to our prior conversation with Linda here. ________________________________ Linda Greenhouse, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and other major journalism awards, covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for nearly thirty years. Since 2009, she ...
Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence Inside Us
June 02, 2022 12:20 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBThis week on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, we revisit our conversation with Senator Chris Murphy where he discussed his book The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy. Elected in 2012 as the youngest member of the U.S. Senate, Chris Murphy has earned a reputation as a serious legislator who is willing to stand up for his principles and reach across the aisle. Since the Newtown school shooting in December 2012, he has also become the best-known leader in ...
Sunita Puri: Why a Life Well Lived Is a Good Death
May 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBA lot of times there’s an interview that just sticks in your brain and stays there and pops up periodically. And one of those interviews for us was with Dr. Sunita Puri, who’s an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California and medical director of the Palliative Medicine Unit at Keck Hospital, and the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, out now in paperback from Penguin Press. The reason we’re revisiting this conversation thi...
Anna Quindlen: You're Never Alone When You Read Great Novels
May 05, 2022 09:37 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Anna Quindlen joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her latest book, Write For Your Life, out now from Random House. Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of many novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, ...
Has Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong?
April 21, 2022 12:05 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBIn 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.
Introducing Storybound
April 20, 2022 21:24 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBNow celebrating its fifth season, Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by 2021 KCRW Radio Race winner Jude Brewer, Storybound presents the voices of today’s best writers reading accomplished works of fiction and non-fiction. You’ll also hear original music specially composed for the respective text. Needless to say, it’s an immersive storytelling experience. The episode we’re sharing today features Stephanie Danler reading from her Stray, a memoir about w...
Barry Nalebuff: Don't Fight Fire With Fire; Fight Fire With Water
April 07, 2022 11:35 - 53 minutes - 49 MBOn this week's episode, Roxanne talks with leading Yale expert and serial entrepreneur Barry Nalebuff about his new book, Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate. Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor at the Yale School of Management, where he has taught for over thirty years. An expert on game theory, he has written extensively on its application to business strategy. His bestsellers include Thinking Strategically, The Art of Strategy, and Mission in a Bottle. This is his se...
Freedom Must Still Be Defended: Remembering Madeleine Albright
March 31, 2022 04:16 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBWith Madeleine Albright's passing, we thought it might be useful, interesting, even fun to revisit our conversation with the American diplomat and political scientist from January of 2019, when her latest book came out called Fascism: A Warning. This conversation, given what's going on in the world today with Ukraine and the role of NATO, provides insights into the foreign policies over the last 50 years that might have contributed or mitigated the aggression we're now seeing by Russia. So wh...
Nick Davis on Writing Himself Into a Biography–And Taking Himself Out
March 24, 2022 11:40 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Nick Davis joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his latest book, Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait, out now from Knopf. ________________________________ Nick Davis is a writer, director, and producer. His most recent film is Once Upon A Time in Queens about the 1986 Mets. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughters. Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in ...
Amy Bloom: Grief is the Price You Pay for Love
March 10, 2022 08:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Amy Bloom joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his first book, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, out now from Random House. ________________________________ Amy Bloom is the author of Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; Love Invents Us; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Normal; Away, a New York Times bestseller; Where the God of Love Hangs Out; Lucky Us, a New York Times...
Senator Will Haskell on Why We Should Feel Optimistic About Politics
February 24, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Senator Will Haskell joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his first book, 100,000 First Bosses: My Unlikely Path as a 22-Year-Old Lawmaker, out now from Avid Reader Press. Will Haskell was elected in 2018 to represent seven towns, including his hometown, in the Connecticut State Senate. Just a few months after graduating from college, he and his roommate-turned-campaign manager unseated a Republican incumbent who had been in the legislatur...
Beth Macy on the Future of Families and Communities in the Opioid Epidemic
February 10, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Beth Macy joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her landmark book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, out in paperback from Back Bay Books and now a critically-acclaimed TV series from Hulu. ________________________________ Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen na...
Oliver Burkeman on What It Means to Be Finite Creatures With Infinite Minds
January 27, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Oliver Burkeman joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, out now from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. He wrote a long-running weekly column on psychology for The Guardian, This Column Will Change Your Life, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, P...
Sarah Ruhl on Why We Should Love Imperfection and Asymmetry
January 13, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Sarah Ruhl joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her new book, Smile: The Story of a Face, out now from Simon & Schuster. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! ________________________________ Sarah Ruhl is a playwright and writer of other things. Her fifteen plays include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), The Clean House, and Eurydice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee...