Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

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

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...

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

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...

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 R...

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

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

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!

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!

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!

Roxanne and Bill Goldstein discuss what they are reading, bestsellers, and what coming up that is keeping them awake at night in the new Just the Right Book Shorts. Sign up for our podcast newsletter!

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel joins Roxanne to discuss transgenerational trauma. They discuss the twelve touchstones for family well being and also explore the idea that the relationships that touch us the most are often the ones that can hurt us the most. Buy Every Family Has a Story from RJ Julia Sign up for our podcast newsletter!

Roxanne is joined again by Bill Goldstein to talk about what they are reading now, the bestsellers and what's coming out soon that has caught their eye. What we are reading now: Burnam Wood Perish Bestsellers we are talking about: Its OK to be Angry About Capitalism The Silent Patient What’s new that we are excited about: The Lost Americans American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal Sign up...

Elisabeth Griffith discusses the history of equal rights for women, the 19th Amendment, and how a century later all women are still grappling to secure their rights. Buy the book here Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com Sign up for our podcast newsletter

Roxanne introduces a new biweekly podcast, Just the Right Book Shorts in conversation with Bill Goldstein. Find out about new books, what they’re reading now, and commentary on bestsellers. What are we reading now I Have Some Questions for You The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Best Seller Lessons in Chemistry It Starts With Us New and exciting! Enchantment: Awake...

Roxanne and James Stewart discuss the family drama and boardroom backstabbing in his new book co-authored with Rachel Abrams, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy. Buy the book here Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

In this episode of Just the Right Book, Courtney Maum talks about her exploration with depression and forgiveness in her memoir, The Year of the Horses, by revisiting her past and finding an old love in horseback riding. Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre, Touch, and I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, and an award-winning guide for writers, Before and After the Book Deal....

Poet Billy Collins joins Roxanne Coady to discuss his new collection, Musical Tables: Poems and the power and pleasure of the small poem.

Clea Newman Soderlund and editor, David Rosenthal talk with Roxanne on the process of finding and compiling a series of interviews conducted over a period of time and writings from Paul Newman to create the posthumous memoir of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. Listen in as we discover the celebrated actor, husband and father, Paul Newman who does not hold back in this intimate and ca...

Legendary 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. 

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. See the full list of books discussed here.

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 Prize0winnin...

It 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 exist...

Signal 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 podcas...

John Wood Sweet is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the former director of UNC’s Program in Sexuality Studies. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, and the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, among others. His first...