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Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySenator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence Inside UsThis 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 Congress in confronting the plague of gun violence in America. Now in his second term...
2024-05-161h 10Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyTim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to FascismIn 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. Buy the book from RJ Julia: The Curse of Bigness - Tim WuSign up for our podcast newsletterJust The Right Book SubscriptionPr...
2024-05-0240 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment with Anthony KronmanIn 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 book from RJ Julia: After Disbelief: On Disenchan...
2024-04-251h 00Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work with Claudia RankineIn 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.Buy Just Us from RJ JuliaSign up for our podcast newsletterJust The Right Book SubscriptionPromo Code (15% off): PodcastEmail us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
2024-04-1846 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyBilly Collins on the Small PoemPoet Billy Collins joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his new collection, Musical Tables: Poems and the power and pleasure of the small poem.Buy Billy Collins books from RJ JuliaSign up for our podcast newsletterJust The Right Book SubscriptionPromo Code (15% off): PodcastEmail us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
2024-04-1150 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyRedefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State with George PackerIn 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.
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2024-03-281h 08Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyWhat Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American DreamIn 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.
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2024-03-211h 03Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHas Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong? with Daniel PinkIn 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.
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2024-03-1454 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on SurvivalIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Edith Eger joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, The Gift.
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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.
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2024-03-0759 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer with Dr. Azra RazaAccording 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 to discuss her latest book.
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2024-01-1853 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen with David BrooksDavid 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
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2024-01-1151 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America with Gretchen MorgensonRoxanne 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.
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2023-12-2856 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJTRB Shorts #21 - A quick look at what's newA look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about some new books.
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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
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2023-12-2127 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe 2023 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!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
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2023-12-1446 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDemocracy Awakening with Heather Cox RichardsonRoxanne 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.
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2023-11-3056 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJTRB Shorts #19 - A quick look at what's newA 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.
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Signal Fires - Dani Shapiro
Edith Holler - Edward Carey
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
I Must Be Dreaming - Roz Chast
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2023-11-2317 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyEnough with Cassidy HutchinsonRoxanne 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.
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2023-11-1659 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJTRB Shorts #18 - A quick look at what's newA 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.
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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
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2023-11-0921 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher With John SargentRoxanne 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.
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Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher - John Sargent
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2023-11-021h 02Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJTRB Shorts #17 - A quick look at what's newA 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.
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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
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2023-10-2620 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyTime’s Echo with Jeremy EichlerRoxanne 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.
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Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler
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2023-10-1957 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyBanned BooksRoxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein discuss Banned Books Week and the effect of banning books in our schools and libraries.
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2023-10-0528 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyMy Life As A Cosmic Rock Star with Cydny BullensRock 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."
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2023-09-211h 06Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to be Good with Elise LoehnenRoxanne 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.
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On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good - Elise Loehnen
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2023-09-0754 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment with Anthony T. KronmanIn 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.
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2023-08-241h 03Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe Land of Hope and Fear with Isabel KerschnerThe 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.
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2023-08-101h 06Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAda Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and FailureRoxanne Coady talks to Ada Calhoun the author of Also A Poet about restoring her father's legacy by a discovery of Frank O'Hara.
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2023-06-2953 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyA Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz SchwarczLuiz 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.
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2023-06-151h 04Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyBilly Collins on the Small PoemPoet Billy Collins joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his new collection, Musical Tables: Poems and the power and pleasure of the small poem.
2023-01-2753 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJacques Pepin and The Art of the ChickenLegendary 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.
2022-12-2955 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!Join 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.
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2022-12-1549 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyWhy Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?Thomas 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 man who insidiously and deliberately became a revolutionary of the first order. Resurrecting a man history has almost forgotten, a man without w...
2022-12-0147 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the GenerationsIt 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 Pulitzer, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of a slew of other honors and fellowships. He wraps his compassion and...
2022-11-181h 20Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDani Shapiro: How Writing Fiction Can Expose More of Yourself Than Writing MemoirSignal 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, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Time. She has taught at Columbia and New York Uni...
2022-11-0352 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyTina Brown: While the Monarchy Will Not End, It Will Shrink NeverthelessIn 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 the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Diana Chroni...
2022-09-221h 07Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAnthony T. Kronman on How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and DisenchantmentIn 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.
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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.
Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in the Unit...
2022-09-081h 05Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow Do We Eradicate the Great Challenge of Our Age: Unconscious Bias and Discrimination?In 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.
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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 former writer for public radio and producer for American Public Media, she graduated from Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives i...
2022-08-251h 08Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyElizabeth Alexander: How Do You Keep Yourself Safe But Not Live in Fear?When 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 to her when she read her poem “Praise Song for the Day” at President Obama’s inauguration. She is a be...
2022-08-111h 07Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJulie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel: Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the HolocaustThis 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 Prize and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford Univers...
2022-07-2856 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyWhat Should You Read This Summer?Whether 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)
Ann Hood, Fly Girl (W.W. Norton)
Meredith Hall, Beneficence (David R. Godine Publisher)
Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These (
2022-06-3051 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyLinda Greenhouse on When the Republican Party Was the Party of Reproductive ChoiceThis 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.
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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 has taught at Yale Law School and written a biweekly op-ed column on the Court as a contributing writer for the Times. She is a gradua...
2022-06-1636 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySenator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence Inside UsThis 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 Congress in confronting the plague of gun violence in America. Now in his second term repr...
2022-06-021h 18Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySunita Puri: Why a Life Well Lived Is a Good DeathA 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 this week on Just the Right Book is because we hear too many times about som...
2022-05-191h 11Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAnna Quindlen: You're Never Alone When You Read Great NovelsIn 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, Plenty of Cake was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold m...
2022-05-0559 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHas Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong?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.
2022-04-211h 01Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyNick Davis on Writing Himself Into a Biography–And Taking Himself OutIn 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.
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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 the United States, which—since 1990—has been a community resource not only for books, but for the exchange of...
2022-03-241h 07Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAmy Bloom: Grief is the Price You Pay for LoveIn 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.
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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 bestseller; and White Houses. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short St...
2022-03-1055 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySenator Will Haskell on Why We Should Feel Optimistic About PoliticsIn 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 legislature for longer than Will had been alive. Their campaign activated an army of young volunteers who were energized by the fight to end gun vi...
2022-02-2455 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyBeth Macy on the Future of Families and Communities in the Opioid EpidemicIn 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.
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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 national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard.
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2022-02-1057 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyOliver Burkeman on What It Means to Be Finite Creatures With Infinite MindsIn 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, Psychologies, and New Philosopher. He lives in New York City.
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2022-01-271h 03Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySarah Ruhl on Why We Should Love Imperfection and AsymmetryIn 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.
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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, and the recipient of the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, around the country, internation...
2022-01-1356 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyEnding the Year With Bishop Michael B. CurryTo 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.
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2021-12-301h 09Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDorie Greenspan Still Finds Joy in BakingIn 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.
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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-winner for Best Baking and Dessert book; Around My French Table, a New York Times bestseller that was named Cookbook of the Year by the IACP; Baking Ch...
2021-12-1653 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!Join 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 Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint British Village - Maureen Johnson
See the full list here.
2021-12-0945 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyWho Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?In 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 lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
2021-12-021h 02Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyKati Marton Observes the Transformative Power of Angela MerkelIn 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.
2021-11-181h 11Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJessica Nordell on What We Don't Realize About Unconscious BiasIn 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.
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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 former writer for public radio and producer for American Public Media, she graduated from Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in Minneap...
2021-11-041h 06Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyRobert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Still Alive TodayIn 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.
2021-10-211h 10Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyEvan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social TransitionIn 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.
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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 the United States, which—since 1990—has been a community resource not only for books, but for the exchange of ideas. In 19...
2021-10-071h 01Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyBill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read NextThe 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.
2021-09-231h 09Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAnne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg's Early DaysIn 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.
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2021-09-0957 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyGeorge Packer on Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the StateIn 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 “irreverent, fast-paced, and unfailingly rigorous. . . an enthralling nonfiction picaresque that offers incisive clues to the co...
2021-08-261h 09Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyRobert Ballard, the Man Who's Discovered More Than Just the TitanicFor 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 source of food and energy. Most profoundly, there is Robert Ballard’s restless enthusiasm for discovery and adventure and the co...
2021-08-121h 08Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyUrsula Burns on the Dangers of ExceptionalismIn 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 rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world. She was...
2021-07-291h 09Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyWhat Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American DreamIn 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.
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2021-07-151h 03Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyGigi Georges on the False Narratives of Rural AmericaIn 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.
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2021-07-0156 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take TimeIn 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.
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2021-06-171h 07Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJudy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the HolocaustIn 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.
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2021-06-031h 01Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyCan We Salvage Patriotism? Should We?When 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.
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2021-05-201h 03Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyTim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to FascismIn 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.
2021-05-0641 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyBishop Michael B. Curry on Hopeful Lessons from the Civil Rights MovementIn 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.
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2021-04-291h 09Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJanice P. Nimura on the Case for Admiring "Unlikable" WomenIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Janice P. Nimura joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, The Doctors Blackwell.
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2021-04-081h 04Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyThe 2020 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!Join 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
The Gift – Dr. Edith Eger
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb – (mentioned, not discussed)
Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedi...
2020-12-171h 10Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyIjeoma Oluo, Leslie Gray Streeter, and Jennifer Palmieri on Writing—and Thriving—in a World of Mediocre White MenIn 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.
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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 the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Jennifer Palmieri is the #1 New York Times best...
2020-11-1947 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on SurvivalIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Edith Eger joins Roxanne to discuss her new book, The Gift.
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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.
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Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in the United States, which—since 1990—has been a community resource not...
2020-11-121h 01Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyClaudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary WorkIn 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.
2020-11-0547 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor CodeIn 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.
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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, Character Is Destiny, Hard Call, and Thirteen Soldiers. He served on Senator McCain’s staff for eighteen years.
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Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, o...
2020-10-2936 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyMark Salter on Why the Republican Party’s Future Is BleakIn 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.
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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, Character Is Destiny, Hard Call, and Thirteen Soldiers. He served on Senator McCain’s staff for eighteen years.
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Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, o...
2020-10-2242 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyNPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering You OnIn this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, Guy Raz joins Roxanne to discuss his book How I Built This.
2020-10-1549 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAminatou Sow and Ann Friedman on Racism Manifesting in FriendshipsIn 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. Every Friday, she sends a popular email newsletter. Ann lives in Los Angeles.
Together, Aminatou and Ann host the long-running podcast Call Your Gi...
2020-10-0858 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAnnik LaFarge on Chasing Chopin Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen RevolutionsIn 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 Musical Journey Across 3 Centuries, 4 Countries, and a Half Dozen Revolutions. She lives in New York City.
2020-10-0155 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyWe Need to Give Everyone Permission to Feel ThingsIn 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 performance. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by...
2020-09-241h 02Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHas America Ever Had a Unified Vision of Itself?In 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 of Business, and Princeton University. Jordan is based in New York, where he invests in entrepreneurial efforts to grow...
2020-09-1756 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJenny Odell: There Is No Work Without Care and MaintenanceThis 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 book.
2020-09-0354 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyCasey Schwartz: The Disillusions of an Adderall WorldIn 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 explored in Casey Schwarz's book, ]Attention: A Love Story, but the telling is enhanced by your own personal romance with Adderall. This week on J...
2020-07-3048 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow Can We Stay Human in a F*cked Up World?How 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 meditation, psychotherapy, conflict resolution and nonviolent social change.
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2020-06-2531 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDr. Azra Raza on the Human Costs of Pursuing CancerAccording 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, Dr. Azra Raza join Roxanne Coady to discuss her latest book, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the L...
2020-04-3054 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyAda Calhoun on Defining the Midlife Crisis for WomenMen have defined the space of midlife crisis for decades — the sporty cars, the affairs, etc. But what does a midlife crisis look like for women, and do Gen X women have a particular vulnerability? Ada Calhoun has used her uncanny ability to define the zeitgeist along with countless interviews, research, and data to answer these questions, resulting in her latest book, Why We Can’t Sleep. In this episode of Just the Right Book, Roxanne Coady talks with Calhoun about her latest book and how seemingly having it all can make you miserable.
2020-01-2345 minJust the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyStephen A. Schwarzman on What It Takes to Be SuccessfulStephen Schwarzman, with his cofounder Pete Peterson, built Blackstone into the largest private equity firm in the world, with over half a trillion dollars under management. Yet at the beginning, that success did not seem inevitable. In 1985, they sent out almost five hundred letters to potential investors and received two responses. Two years later, they closed an eight-hundred million fund, and they closed it on the eve on the largest one-day percentage drop in stock market history. Along the way, Steve Schwarzman became one of the sought-after advisors to business, governments, and leaders around the world as well as an...
2019-12-121h 14Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyJust the Right Book: Special Holiday Episode!This week, Roxanne Coady and two members of the RJ Julia Booksellers staff, COO Lori Fazio and head book buyer Andrew Brennan, share their picks of the holiday season, including The Boy, the Mold, the Fox, and the Horse, The Martini Cocktail, Jubilee, The Complete Goal Manual, and much more. Listen and find the perfect gift for everyone on your list this holiday season!
2019-12-1042 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyIs the World More or Less F*cked Up Than It Used to Be? Tim Desmond on Mindfulness Practices for Real LifeHow do we respond to the immensity of suffering that confronts us and overwhelms us without losing our compassion or sanity? This week, Roxanne Coady sits down with Tim Desmond to 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 meditation, psychotherapy, conflict resolution and nonviolent social change.
2019-09-1228 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadySearching for America's Moral Imagination & "The Common Good"Political commentator, and college professor Robert Reich joined Roxanne to talk about his latest book The Common Good. Roxanne and Professor Reich had a far-ranging conversation that included the intersection between capitalism and progressivism, the possibility that if we didn't have Trump we would have someone just like him, and what the 2020 election might look like.
2019-03-1446 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyDani Shapiro Uncovers Cathartic Family Secret in Latest MemoirDuring a recent sold-out event at RJ Julia, Dani sat down with Roxanne to discuss her fifth memoir, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, how a commercial DNA kit revealed her hidden lineage, and her emotional connection to her family and faith. Roxanne says “it reflects the Zeitgeist of our times, issues of identity, family secrets, and how we tell our stories.”
2019-01-2341 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyHow to Make the Ultimate Cheese Plate!Hosting holiday house guests and need some tips on what to serve? Culinary guru Dorie Greenspan recently sat down with Roxanne at RJ Julia to chat about her new book Everyday Dorie and give us the scoop on making a holiday-worthy cheese platter! Make sure you tune in later this week to hear Roxanne's full conversation with Dorie Greenspan!
2018-12-2305 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyIs Democracy in Danger?Our guest Yascha Mounk’s new book, "The People Vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It" is “a provocative must read,” according to Roxanne. Roxanne and Yascha will explore how we got to where we are and what we can do about it. Yascha, the Executive Director at the Tony Blair Institute, lectures at Harvard and write The Good Fight column at Slate as well as hosts a podcast by the same name. This is an important show you won’t want to miss.
2018-03-1543 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyInside the WSJ's Book List; Jeff Goodell's "The Water Will Come"Looking for a good book to curl up with this winter? We've got you covered! In this week's episode of Just the Right Book Podcast Roxanne is joined by Ellen Gamerman, the Arts and Culture reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Also in this episode, Roxanne speaks to author, journalist and Rolling Stone contributor Jeff Goodell about his latest book, "The Water Will Come." The book details how oceanside places are becoming more and more vulnerable to rising seas due to global warming and climate change.
2018-02-011h 04
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyIsabel Allende Finds Love “In the Midst of Winter”llende, who’s novels include “The House of the Spirits” and “City of the Beasts,” joined our Roxanne Coady at a live event hosted by RJ Julia to chat about her latest work, "In the Midst of Winter." And in case you missed it, Roxanne gives you the titles of the 2017 National Book Award winners!
2017-11-2353 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyClaire Messud Reads From "The Burning Girl"In today's Tidbits episode, we hear Claire Messud read a passage from her latest book, The Burning Girl. Roxanne describes the novel as "a fascinating look at friendships between young girls and how they arc over time." Also in today's Tidbits, we give you a sneak peek at next week's interview with novelist Dan Heath, who spoke to Roxanne about his new book, The Power of Moments. Listen to the full interview with Claire Messud here
2017-10-2008 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady25 Books That Will Change Your LifeOne of the questions that Roxanne loves to ask all of our guests is "What is the book that changed your life?" "The stories are often poignant, personal or funny", says Roxanne "and inevitably they become a list of books that you are dying to read." On a special edition of Just the Right Book Podcast, we take a look back at some of our favorite stories from the past forty episodes. Looking to start a new book this Labor Day weekend? We have 25 suggestions for you to choose from!
2017-08-3042 min
Just the Right Book with Roxanne CoadyElizabeth Strout Knows "Anything is Possible"One of Roxanne's favorite authors, Elizabeth Strout joins Just the Right Book Podcast to talk about her latest novel, Anything is Possible. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author also gives us the scoop on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series, Olive Kitteridge (based on Strout's book of the same name) and shares her thoughts on Frances McDormand as the title character. "You read Strout, really for the same reason you listen to a requiem: to experience the beauty in sadness," says Jennifer Senior of the New York Times.
We also talk to our first JTRB book club winner, Kim Nelson-Layman, who got a s...
2017-07-2632 min