Synopsis
Just the Right Book is a podcast hosted by Roxanne Coady, owner of famous independent bookstore R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, that will help you discover new and note-worthy books in all genres, give you unique insights into your favorite authors, and bring you up to date with whats happening in the literary world.
Episodes
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JTRB Shorts #22 - A talk with Bethanne Patrick
04/01/2024 Duration: 28minIn today's short Roxanne sits down with The Book Maven Bethanne Patrick. She is a podcaster, author, and book critic for the LA times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Lit Hub. Bethanne's book Life B: Overcoming Double Depression Listen to Bethanne's podcast Missing Pages Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America with Gretchen Morgenson
28/12/2023 Duration: 56minRoxanne Coady talks with Gretchen Morgenson author of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson investigate the insidious world of private equity and reveal how it puts our entire economy and us at risk. Buy the book from RJ Julia How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America - Gretchen Morgenson Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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JTRB Shorts #21 - A quick look at what's new
21/12/2023 Duration: 27minA look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about some new books. Buy the books from RJ Julia Possession - A. S. Byatt Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown My Name is Barbra - Barbra Streisand Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Rachel Maddow Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
14/12/2023 Duration: 46minHear from the booksellers themselves as RJ Julia Bookseller staff Lori Fazio and Andrew Brennan join Roxanne Coady to explore the best books to give as gifts to the readers in your life. 2023 RJ Julia Holiday Book Selection Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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JTRB Short #20 - New York Times Top 10 Best Sellers
07/12/2023 Duration: 27minGilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review talks about the Top 10 books of 2023 and how they get on the list. Buy the NYT top 10 bestsellers books from RJ Julia The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Eastbound - Maylis De Kerangal The Fraud - Zadie Smith North Woods - Daniel Mason The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs - Kerry Howley Fire Weather - John Vaillant Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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Democracy Awakening with Heather Cox Richardson
30/11/2023 Duration: 56minRoxanne Coady talks with Heather Cox Richardson the bestselling author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America Historian and author of the newsletter Letters From An American explores the roots and complexities of American democracy, the challenges we face in the present, and the potential paths forward. Buy the book from RJ Julia Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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JTRB Shorts #19 - A quick look at what's new
23/11/2023 Duration: 17minA look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about some new books that can help keep you distracted with all that's going on in the world. Buy the books from RJ Julia Signal Fires - Dani Shapiro Edith Holler - Edward Carey Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride I Must Be Dreaming - Roz Chast Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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Enough with Cassidy Hutchinson
16/11/2023 Duration: 59minRoxanne Coady talks with Cassidy Hutchinson about her new book Enough. Cassidy’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Buy the book from RJ Julia Enough - Cassidy Hutchinson Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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JTRB Shorts #18 - A quick look at what's new
09/11/2023 Duration: 21minA look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about new books that are educating about the facts about the crisis in the Middle East. For a complete list of books the RJ Julia recommends you can go to rjjulia.com/podcast. Buy the books from RJ Julia A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - David Fromkin A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy - Nathan Thrall The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood - Rashid Khalidi Daniel Deronda - George Eliot Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher With John Sargent
02/11/2023 Duration: 01h02minRoxanne Coady talks with John Sargent about his many adventures in book publishing at a time when the industry met many challenges and some of the authors and other characters he worked with along the way. Buy the book from RJ Julia Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher - John Sargent Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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JTRB Shorts #17 - A quick look at what's new
26/10/2023 Duration: 20minA 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 Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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Time’s Echo with Jeremy Eichler
19/10/2023 Duration: 57minRoxanne 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 Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com
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Cooking My Way: Live with Jacques Pépin
12/10/2023 Duration: 51minRoxanne 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
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Banned Books
05/10/2023 Duration: 28minRoxanne 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
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JTRB Shorts #16 - A quick look at what's new
28/09/2023 Duration: 23minIn 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
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My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star with Cydny Bullens
21/09/2023 Duration: 01h06minRock 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
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JTRB Shorts #15 - A quick look at what's new
14/09/2023 Duration: 22minIn 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
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The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to be Good with Elise Loehnen
07/09/2023 Duration: 54minRoxanne 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@rjjulia.com
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JTRB Shorts #14 - A quick look at what's new
31/08/2023 Duration: 23minIn 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
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How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment with Anthony T. Kronman
24/08/2023 Duration: 01h03minIn 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 Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com