Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
433 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 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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Ending the Year With Bishop Michael B. Curry
December 30, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBTo end the year on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, we revisit our conversatoin with Bishop Michael B. Curry as he discussed his latest book, Love Is the Way: Holding On to Hope in Troubled Times. This week's sponsor: This episode is presented by Audible.
Dorie Greenspan Still Finds Joy in Baking
December 16, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Dorie Greenspan joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her new book, Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple, out now from Mariner Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! ________________________________ Inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America, Dorie Greenspan is the author of 14 cookbooks, including Baking with Dorie; Dorie’s Cookies, a 2017 James Beard Award-wi...
The 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
December 09, 2021 18:41 - 45 minutes - 41.2 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. Books discussed include: The Baseball 100 – Joe Pasnanski 50 Hikes with Kids New England - Wendy Gorton Zorrie – Laird Hunt All of the Marvels – Douglas Wolk Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout Smile: The Story of a Face – Sarah Ruhl Bewilderment – Richard Powers American Christmas Stories – Ed. Connie Willis Pajamas Pilates – Maria Mankin Your Guide to No...
Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?
December 02, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBIn this week's episode, Roxanne Coady talks with Linda Greenhouse about her recent book, Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court. Linda Greenhouse has reported on and written about the Supreme Court for The New York Times for more than four decades, earning numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize. She currently writes an opinion column on the court and teaches at Yale Law School. She liv...
Kati Marton Observes the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel
November 18, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Kati Marton joins Roxanne to discuss her book, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, out now from Simon & Schuster.
Jessica Nordell on What We Don't Realize About Unconscious Bias
November 04, 2021 12:13 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Jessica Nordell joins Roxanne to discuss 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 other publications. A f...
Robert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Still Alive Today
October 21, 2021 11:55 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Robert Draper joins Roxanne to discuss his book, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq, out now from Penguin Press. Robert Draper is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing writer to National Geographic. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. He lives in Washington, DC.
Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition
October 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Evan Osnos joins Roxanne to discuss his new book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, out now from Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. ________________________________ Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a CNN contributor, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Based in Washington D.C., he writes about politics and foreign affairs. Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in ...
Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next
September 23, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBThe number of big books coming out this fall is unprecedented. 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.
Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg's Early Days
September 09, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Anne Sebba joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy, out now from St. Martin's Press. Subscribe to Just the Right Book!
George Packer on Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State
August 26, 2021 13:52 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, George Packer joins Roxanne to discuss his new book, The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. George Packer is a journalist, novelist, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker. His latest book is Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, which the members of the Whiting Award grant jury—from whom Packer was awarded a grant to complete the work—say is “irrev...
Robert Ballard, the Man Who's Discovered More Than Just the Titanic
August 12, 2021 10:11 - 1 hour - 63 MBFor many reasons, when you hear the name Robert Ballard, you might think of the discovery of the Titanic. But, forgive us for this, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are the other discoveries of shipwrecks like the Bismarck, the Lusitania, and the PT-109. There is the pioneering development of remote submersibles and telepresence that have escalated undersea exploration exponentially. There’s also the discovery of hydrothermal vents on the floor of the ocean that could eventually be a...
Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism
July 29, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Ursula Burns joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her new memoir, Where You Are Is Not Who You Are, out now from Amistad Press. Ursula M. Burns was the chair and CEO of VEON from mid 2019 to early 2020, a senior advisor to Teneo LTD, Nestlé, Exxon Mobil, and The Ford Foundation among others. She is a member of the board of directors of Uber. She served as CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, and as chairwoman from 2010 to 2017. In 2014, Forbes r...
What Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American Dream
July 15, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Maria Konnikova joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her book, The Biggest Bluff, out now from Penguin Press. This week's sponsor: Talkspace. Get $100 off of your first month with code JUSTTHERIGHTBOOK.
Gigi Georges on the False Narratives of Rural America
July 01, 2021 13:03 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Gigi Georges joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her book, Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America, out now from Harper. Today's Sponsors: Noom. Ready to learn how to live healthier? Sign up for Noom today at noom.com/justtherightbook. Scribd. Get a 60-day free trial at try.scribd.com/jrb. Realm. Starring Emmy award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany, Realm presents the official continuation of the hit TV series Orpha...
Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time
June 17, 2021 12:35 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Sherry Turkle joins Roxanne Coady to discuss her book, The Empathy Diaries, out now from Penguin. Talkspace. Get $100 off of your first month with code JUSTTHERIGHTBOOK.
Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust
June 03, 2021 13:50 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Judy Batalion joins Roxanne to discuss her book, The Light of Days, out now from William Morrow & Company. Today's Sponsors: Scribd. Get a 60-day free trial at try.scribd.com/jrb. Noom. Ready to learn how to live healthier? Sign up for Noom today at noom.com/justtherightbook. Realm. Starring Emmy award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany, Realm presents the official continuation of the hit TV series Orphan Black. Listen to Orphan Black: T...
Can We Salvage Patriotism? Should We?
May 20, 2021 11:53 - 1 hour - 58 MBWhen did patriotism become a lightning rod, and why? On the right, it has become aligned with nationalism, and on the left, it is seen as an impediment to acknowledging exclusions and flaws in our founding documents and theories. Can we even resurrect common values and salvage patriotism? In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Steven Smith joins Roxanne to discuss his book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, out now from Yale University Press. This episode's spon...
Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism
May 06, 2021 04:51 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, we revisit our conversation with Tim Wu to discuss his book, The Curse of Bigness, now available in paperback and which examines the history of antitrust actions in the 20th century, making the argument that breaking up today's largest high-tech titans would be good for business as well as our democracy.
Bishop Michael B. Curry on Hopeful Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
April 29, 2021 12:51 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Bishop Michael B. Curry joins Roxanne to discuss his new book, Love Is the Way: Holding On to Hope in Troubled Times. This week's sponsor: This episode is presented by Noom. Ready to learn how to live healthier? Sign up for Noom today at noom.com/justtherightbook.
Janice P. Nimura on the Case for Admiring "Unlikable" Women
April 08, 2021 04:47 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Janice P. Nimura joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, The Doctors Blackwell. This week's sponsor: This episode is presented by Noom. Ready to learn how to live healthier? Sign up for Noom today at noom.com/justtherightbook.
The 2020 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
December 17, 2020 14:49 - 1 hour - 64.6 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. Books discussed include: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X – Les Payne Eleanor: A Life – David Michaelis The Luckiest Man – Mark Salter Modern Comfort Food – Ina Garten Jacques Pepin: Quick & Simple Winter Cocktails : Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, and Cocktail Party Snacks – Maria del Mar Sacasa The Choice – Dr. Edith Eger T...
Ijeoma Oluo, Leslie Gray Streeter, and Jennifer Palmieri on Writing—and Thriving—in a World of Mediocre White Men
November 19, 2020 13:19 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, in partnership with Hachette, Ijeoma Oluo (Mediocre), Jennifer Palmieri (She Proclaims), and Leslie Gray Streeter (Black Widow) join Roxanne to discuss their new books. ________________________________ Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has twice been named to the Root 100, and she received t...
Dr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on Survival
November 12, 2020 11:18 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBIn 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. * Roxanne Coady is own...
Claudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work
November 05, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Claudia Rankine joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, Just Us. Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist, and playwright. Just Us completes her groundbreaking trilogy, following Don't Let Me Be Lonely and Citizen. She is a MacArthur Fellow and teaches at Yale University.
How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code
October 29, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Mark Salter joins Roxanne to discuss his book The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain. This podcast is brought to you by Catapult, publishers of White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad. ________________________________ Mark Salter has collaborated with John McCain on all seven of their books, including The Restless Wave, Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Characte...
Mark Salter on Why the Republican Party’s Future Is Bleak
October 22, 2020 12:48 - 42 minutes - 39 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Mark Salter joins Roxanne to discuss his book The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain. This podcast is brought to you by Catapult, publishers of White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad. ________________________________ Mark Salter has collaborated with John McCain on all seven of their books, including The Restless Wave, Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Characte...
NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering You On
October 15, 2020 13:06 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Guy Raz joins Roxanne to discuss his book How I Built This.
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman on Racism Manifesting in Friendships
October 08, 2020 11:31 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBIn the fourth episode of our new season on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow join Roxanne to discuss their book, Big Friendship. Aminatou Sow is a writer, interviewer, and cultural commentator. She is a frequent public speaker whose talks and interviews lead to candid conversations about ambition, money, and power. Aminatou lives in Brooklyn. Ann Friedman is a journalist, essayist, and media entrepreneur. She is a contributing editor to The Gentlewoman. Ev...
Annik LaFarge on Chasing Chopin Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
October 01, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBIn the fourth episode of our new season on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Annik Lafarge joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, Chasing Chopin. Annik LaFarge is a writer, photographer, lecturer, and author of the much-praised On the High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park, winner of the IPPY award for Travel Guidebook. She has been writing about the High Line and urban landscapes since 2009 on the blog Livin The High Line. Her most recent book is Chasing Chopin: A Musi...
We Need to Give Everyone Permission to Feel Things
September 24, 2020 12:59 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBIn the third episode of our new season on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Marc Brackett joins Roxanne to discuss his book, Permission to Feel. Marc Brackett, Ph.D., author of Permission to Feel, is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. Marc has published 125 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and...
Has America Ever Had a Unified Vision of Itself?
September 17, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBIn the second episode of our new season on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Jordan Blashek and Chris Haugh join Roxanne to discuss their book, Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground. Jordan Blashek is a businessman, military veteran, and attorney from Los Angeles, California. After college, Jordan spent five years in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry officer, serving two combat tours overseas. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School o...
Senator Chris Murphy on Who's to Blame For Rioting in American Cities
September 10, 2020 13:22 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIn the first episode of our new season, Senator Chris Murphy joins Roxanne to discuss 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 Congress in confronting the plague of gu...
Jenny Odell: There Is No Work Without Care and Maintenance
September 03, 2020 10:43 - 54 minutes - 50 MBThis week, we revisit our 2019 conversation with Jenny Odell as she discusses her book How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy with Roxanne Coady. JENNY ODELL is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is her first ...
James Forman Jr. Talks Crime and Punishment in Black America
August 27, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBIn today's episode, we revisit our conversation with James Forman, Jr. from 2018 as he discusses his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale Law School. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, numerous law reviews, and other publications. A former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, he spent six years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., where he cofounded the Maya Angelou Public Charter ...
Lisa Taddeo on the Discovery-Making of Immersive Journalism
August 20, 2020 19:13 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week, we revisit our conversation with Lisa Taddeo on her book Three Women, now out in paperback. Lisa Taddeo has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour, and many other publications. Her nonfiction has been included in the Best American Sports Writing and Best American Political Writing anthologies, and her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. Lisa Taddeo's debut nonfiction book, Three Women, poignantly, provocatively, and perceptively describes the emotional lan...
Steve Luxenberg: We Need to Rethink Precedents
August 13, 2020 10:28 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBSteve Luxenberg is the author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation and the critically acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Separate won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. This episode was originally aired on Octob...
Dr. Sunita Puri on Moving Towards the Difficulty in Ourselves
August 06, 2020 10:26 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBDoctors are acculturated and socialized to maintain life. Sometimes at all costs, even the human costs of suffering. The relatively new field of palliative care looks for the way that medicine can embrace and relieve the tension of seeking to preserve life while embracing life’s temporality. Dr. Sunita Puri explores the issues with exquisite elegance and humanity in her book That Good Night, out now in paperback from Penguin Press. Dr. Sunita Puri is an assistant professor of clinical medicin...
Casey Schwartz: The Disillusions of an Adderall World
July 30, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBIn the 1990s, three to five percent of American children were believed to have what was referred to as "disordered attention." By 2013, 11 percent were believed to have disordered attention. In 1990, six hundred thousand children were on Ritalin, and by 201 three and a half million children were on stimulants. So was this better diagnosing of the problem? Is the diagnosis actually reliable? And is there an ironic result of treating the problem pharmacologically? All these questions are explo...
Dan Heath: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen
July 23, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBWhy is putting out the fire more fascinating than preventing the fire? And why do we think we don't have the money to prevent something, even if the lack of prevention creates a cost? Or worse, cost lives or quality of lives? We seem to be addicted to response, recovery and rescue. All that can change to our collective good., and in dramatic ways. In Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, best-selling author Dan Heath provides the road maps, the rationale ,and dozens of inc...
Dan Heath: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen
July 23, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutesWhy is putting out the fire more fascinating than preventing the fire? And why do we think we don't have the money to prevent something, even if the lack of prevention creates a cost? Or worse, cost lives or quality of lives? We seem to be addicted to response, recovery and rescue. All that can change to our collective good., and in dramatic ways. In Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, best-selling author Dan Heath provides the road maps, the rationale ,and dozens of inc...
David Kamp on the Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
July 16, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBDavid Kamp is an author, journalist, humorist, lyricist, and a charter member of the Sesame Street—viewing audience. A longtime contributor to Vanity Fair, he has profiled such cultural icons as Johnny Cash, Sly Stone, Lucian Freud, Bruce Springsteen, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Among his books are the national bestseller The United States of Arugula, a chronicle of America’s foodways. His first musical as a lyricist, Kiss My Aztec!, a collaboration with John Leguizamo, had its world premiere a...
Richard Haass on Why History Matters
July 09, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBDr. Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. An experienced diplomat and policymaker, he served as the senior Middle East adviser to President George H. W. Bush, as director of the Policy Planning Staff under Secretary of State Colin Powell, and as the U.S. envoy to both the Cyprus and Northern Ireland peace talks. A recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal, the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award, and the Tipperary International Peace Award, he is also the...
Bess Kalb on How Comedy Saves Her
July 02, 2020 13:40 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBBESS KALB is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Her writing for the show earned her a Writer's Guild Award in 2016. She has also written for the Oscars and the Emmys. A regular contributor to The New Yorker's "Daily Shouts," her work has been published in The New Republic, Grantland, Salon.com, Wired, The Nation, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. This episode is sponsored by Care/Of. For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter the code book50.
How Can We Stay Human in a F*cked Up World?
June 25, 2020 10:15 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBHow do we respond to the immensity of suffering that confronts us and overwhelms us without losing our compassion or sanity? This week, we revisit Roxanne Coady's conversation with Tim Desmond as they discuss his book, How to Stay Human in a F*cked-Up World: Mindfulness Practices for Real Life. Tim Desmond is a psychotherapist, student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and author of Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy. He has dedicated his life to creating peace and compassion in the world through ...
Dr. Beverly Tatum: Are We More Color Blind or Just Color Silent?
June 18, 2020 12:13 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBDr. Beverly Tatum's 1997 book on race relations, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, has become a modern classic found in many classrooms. In this week's episode of Just the Right Book Podcast, the former Spelman College president joins Roxanne for a live event at Wesleyan RJ Julia to talk about the 20th anniversary edition of her time-honored book and how race relations has evolved in the past two decades.
Mitchell S. Jackson: This Isn't Our Eden and Never Will Be
June 04, 2020 11:03 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBThis week, we revisit our conversation with Mitchell Jackson. The legacy of growing up black in a state whose original constitution stated "no free negro or mulatto not residing in the state at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall come, reside or be within the state or hold any real estate or make any contracts or maintain any suit therein. And the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for thei...
Tara Westover: Why Tell Your Story Now?
May 28, 2020 13:11 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBNo birth certificates, no school, no doctors, no registered existence, and abuse at the hands of one of her brothers. Westover’s first book “Educated” describes how she escaped a traumatic childhood to graduate from Brigham Young, Harvard, and Cambridge University with a PhD. Also in this episode, Roxanne discusses some of her favorite memoirs and some of yours!
What Would the Founding Fathers Say About America Today?
May 21, 2020 12:03 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBJoseph J. Ellis is the author of many works of American history including Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife and is the father of three sons.
Julia Samuel: How Do We Process Grief?
May 14, 2020 18:33 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBJulia Samuel’s first book Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, And Surviving is organized by the type of loss; losing a parent, losing a child, and confronting your own death. Is the way which someone grieves different by the loss or is it more defined by who they are? Samuel, a psychotherapist specializing in grief who spent the last 25 years working with bereaved families describes grief as a process that's unique to every person, but universal in the need to be experienced and discussed.