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 newsletter Jus...
Oct 26, 2023•21 min
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 Subscripti...
Oct 19, 2023•57 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Oct 12, 2023•51 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Oct 05, 2023•28 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Sep 28, 2023•23 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 7 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Sep 14, 2023•23 min
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: podcast@rjju...
Sep 07, 2023•54 min
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@rjjulia.com...
Aug 31, 2023•24 min
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 the...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Aug 17, 2023•19 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Aug 03, 2023•24 min
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. Her ...
Jul 27, 2023•54 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jul 20, 2023•21 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jul 13, 2023•56 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jul 06, 2023•21 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jun 29, 2023•53 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jun 22, 2023•22 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 5 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jun 08, 2023•23 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Jun 01, 2023•55 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
May 25, 2023•23 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
May 18, 2023•51 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
May 11, 2023•21 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
May 04, 2023•53 min
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: podcast@rjjulia.com
Apr 27, 2023•30 min
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!
Apr 20, 2023•55 min
Roxanne 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!
Apr 13, 2023•24 min
Roxanne 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!
Apr 06, 2023•56 min
