Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Roxanne Coady

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Jane
 Jan 13, 2024
one of my favorite podcasts

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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 what’s happening in the literary world.

Episode Date
How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment with Anthony Kronman
Apr 25, 2024
The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work with Claudia Rankine
Apr 18, 2024
Billy Collins on the Small Poem
Apr 11, 2024
A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King Jr
Apr 04, 2024
Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State with George Packer
Mar 28, 2024
What Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American Dream
Mar 21, 2024
Has Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong? with Daniel Pink
Mar 14, 2024
Dr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on Survival
Mar 07, 2024
A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America with John Wood Sweet
Feb 29, 2024
Prophet of Freedom with David Blight
Feb 22, 2024
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom with Llyon Woo
Feb 15, 2024
What Does It Mean to Be Human with Lori Gottlieb
Feb 08, 2024
Shorts #23 - A Quick Look at What's New
Feb 01, 2024
Study That Defined How We Diagnose Mental Illness with Susannah Cahalan
Jan 25, 2024
The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer with Dr. Azra Raza
Jan 18, 2024
The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen with David Brooks
Jan 11, 2024
JTRB Shorts #22 - A talk with Bethanne Patrick
Jan 04, 2024
How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America with Gretchen Morgenson
Dec 28, 2023
JTRB Shorts #21 - A quick look at what's new
Dec 21, 2023
The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Dec 14, 2023
JTRB Short #20 - New York Times Top 10 Best Sellers
Dec 07, 2023
Democracy Awakening with Heather Cox Richardson
Nov 30, 2023
JTRB Shorts #19 - A quick look at what's new
Nov 23, 2023
Enough with Cassidy Hutchinson
Nov 16, 2023
JTRB Shorts #18 - A quick look at what's new
Nov 09, 2023
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher With John Sargent
Nov 02, 2023
JTRB Shorts #17 - A quick look at what's new
Oct 26, 2023
Time’s Echo with Jeremy Eichler
Oct 19, 2023
Cooking My Way: Live with Jacques Pépin
Oct 12, 2023
Banned Books
Oct 05, 2023
JTRB Shorts #16 - A quick look at what's new
Sep 28, 2023
My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star with Cydny Bullens
Sep 21, 2023
JTRB Shorts #15 - A quick look at what's new
Sep 14, 2023
The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to be Good with Elise Loehnen
Sep 07, 2023
JTRB Shorts #14 - A quick look at what's new
Aug 31, 2023
How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment with Anthony T. Kronman
Aug 24, 2023
JTRB Shorts #13 - A quick look at what's new
Aug 17, 2023
The Land of Hope and Fear with Isabel Kerschner
Aug 10, 2023
JTRB Shorts #12 - A quick look at what's new
Aug 03, 2023
Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain with Dasha Kiper
Jul 27, 2023
JTRB Shorts #11 - A quick look at what's new
Jul 20, 2023
Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. with Alan Murray
Jul 13, 2023
JTRB Shorts #10 - A quick look at what's new
Jul 06, 2023
Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure
Jun 29, 2023
JTRB Shorts #9 - A quick look at what's new
Jun 22, 2023
A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz
Jun 15, 2023
JTRB Shorts #8 - A quick look at what's new
Jun 08, 2023
Children of the State with Jeff Hobbs
Jun 01, 2023
JTRB Shorts #7 - A quick look at what's new
May 25, 2023
Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed [replay]
May 18, 2023
JTRB Shorts #6 - A quick look at what's new
May 11, 2023
The Critics Daughter with Priscilla Gilman
May 04, 2023
JTRB Shorts #5 - A quick look at what's new
Apr 27, 2023
A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King
Apr 20, 2023
JTRB Shorts #4 - A quick look at what's new
Apr 13, 2023
An Epic Story from Slavery to Freedom with Ilyon Woo
Apr 06, 2023
JTRB Shorts #3 - A quick look at what's new
Mar 30, 2023
Every Family Has A Story with Julia Samuel
Mar 23, 2023
JTRB Shorts #2 - A quick look at what's new
Mar 16, 2023
American Women and the Fight for Equality with Elisabeth Griffith
Mar 09, 2023
JTRB Shorts #1 - A quick look at what's new
Mar 02, 2023
Unscripted by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams
Feb 23, 2023
Courtney Maum on Exploring Depression and Forgiveness Through Horseback Riding
Feb 09, 2023
Billy Collins on the Small Poem
Jan 27, 2023
Looking back at Paul Newman and The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
Jan 12, 2023
Jacques Pepin and The Art of the Chicken
Dec 29, 2022
The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Dec 15, 2022
Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?
Dec 01, 2022
How the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the Generations
Nov 18, 2022
Dani Shapiro: How Writing Fiction Can Expose More of Yourself Than Writing Memoir
Nov 03, 2022
How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History
Oct 20, 2022
David Dennis, Jr.: Why American Civil Rights Activists Should Be Treated as War Veterans
Oct 06, 2022
Tina Brown: While the Monarchy Will Not End, It Will Shrink Nevertheless
Sep 22, 2022
Anthony T. Kronman on How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment
Sep 08, 2022
How Do We Eradicate the Great Challenge of Our Age: Unconscious Bias and Discrimination?
Aug 25, 2022
Elizabeth Alexander: How Do You Keep Yourself Safe But Not Live in Fear?
Aug 11, 2022
Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel: Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust
Jul 28, 2022
Zain Asher: Never Let the Perception of Yourself Hold You Back
Jul 15, 2022
What Should You Read This Summer?
Jun 30, 2022
Linda Greenhouse on When the Republican Party Was the Party of Reproductive Choice
Jun 16, 2022
Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence Inside Us
Jun 02, 2022
Sunita Puri: Why a Life Well Lived Is a Good Death
May 19, 2022
Anna Quindlen: You're Never Alone When You Read Great Novels
May 05, 2022
Has Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong?
Apr 21, 2022
Introducing Storybound
Apr 20, 2022
Barry Nalebuff: Don't Fight Fire With Fire; Fight Fire With Water
Apr 07, 2022
Freedom Must Still Be Defended: Remembering Madeleine Albright
Mar 31, 2022
Nick Davis on Writing Himself Into a Biography–And Taking Himself Out
Mar 24, 2022
Amy Bloom: Grief is the Price You Pay for Love
Mar 10, 2022
Senator Will Haskell on Why We Should Feel Optimistic About Politics
Feb 24, 2022
Beth Macy on the Future of Families and Communities in the Opioid Epidemic
Feb 10, 2022
Oliver Burkeman on What It Means to Be Finite Creatures With Infinite Minds
Jan 27, 2022
Sarah Ruhl on Why We Should Love Imperfection and Asymmetry
Jan 13, 2022
Ending the Year With Bishop Michael B. Curry
Dec 30, 2021
Dorie Greenspan Still Finds Joy in Baking
Dec 16, 2021
The 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Dec 09, 2021
Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?
Dec 02, 2021
Kati Marton Observes the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel
Nov 18, 2021
Jessica Nordell on What We Don't Realize About Unconscious Bias
Nov 04, 2021
Robert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Still Alive Today
Oct 21, 2021
Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition
Oct 07, 2021
Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next
Sep 23, 2021
Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg's Early Days
Sep 09, 2021
George Packer on Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State
Aug 26, 2021
Robert Ballard, the Man Who's Discovered More Than Just the Titanic
Aug 12, 2021
Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism
Jul 29, 2021
What Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American Dream
Jul 15, 2021
Gigi Georges on the False Narratives of Rural America
Jul 01, 2021
Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time
Jun 17, 2021
Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust
Jun 03, 2021
Can We Salvage Patriotism? Should We?
May 20, 2021
Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism
May 06, 2021
Bishop Michael B. Curry on Hopeful Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
Apr 29, 2021
Janice P. Nimura on the Case for Admiring "Unlikable" Women
Apr 08, 2021
The 2020 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Dec 17, 2020
Ijeoma Oluo, Leslie Gray Streeter, and Jennifer Palmieri on Writing—and Thriving—in a World of Mediocre White Men
Nov 19, 2020
Dr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on Survival
Nov 12, 2020
Claudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work
Nov 05, 2020
How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code
Oct 29, 2020
Mark Salter on Why the Republican Party’s Future Is Bleak
Oct 22, 2020
NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering You On
Oct 15, 2020
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman on Racism Manifesting in Friendships
Oct 08, 2020
Annik LaFarge on Chasing Chopin Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
Oct 01, 2020
We Need to Give Everyone Permission to Feel Things
Sep 24, 2020
Has America Ever Had a Unified Vision of Itself?
Sep 17, 2020
Senator Chris Murphy on Who's to Blame For Rioting in American Cities
Sep 10, 2020
Jenny Odell: There Is No Work Without Care and Maintenance
Sep 03, 2020
James Forman Jr. Talks Crime and Punishment in Black America
Aug 27, 2020
Lisa Taddeo on the Discovery-Making of Immersive Journalism
Aug 20, 2020
Steve Luxenberg: We Need to Rethink Precedents
Aug 13, 2020
Dr. Sunita Puri on Moving Towards the Difficulty in Ourselves
Aug 06, 2020
Casey Schwartz: The Disillusions of an Adderall World
Jul 30, 2020
Dan Heath: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen
Jul 23, 2020
David Kamp on the Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
Jul 16, 2020
Richard Haass on Why History Matters
Jul 09, 2020
Bess Kalb on How Comedy Saves Her
Jul 02, 2020
How Can We Stay Human in a F*cked Up World?
Jun 25, 2020
Dr. Beverly Tatum: Are We More Color Blind or Just Color Silent?
Jun 18, 2020
Mitchell S. Jackson: This Isn't Our Eden and Never Will Be
Jun 04, 2020
Tara Westover: Why Tell Your Story Now?
May 28, 2020
What Would the Founding Fathers Say About America Today?
May 21, 2020
Julia Samuel: How Do We Process Grief?
May 14, 2020
Robert Kolker Takes Us Inside the Mind of an American Family
May 07, 2020
Dr. Azra Raza on the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer
Apr 30, 2020
David Blight on the Prophet of Freedom
Apr 23, 2020
How Can Boys Truly Move Forward as Better Men? Peggy Orenstein on Navigating the New Masculinity
Apr 16, 2020
Anne Bogel: Stop Overthinking Everything!
Apr 02, 2020
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work
Mar 19, 2020
Mitchell S. Jackson on Holding Up a Mirror to Whiteness
Mar 12, 2020
Kate Murphy: When Was the Last Time You Really Listened to Someone?
Mar 05, 2020
Dr. Sunita Puri on the Human Costs of Suffering
Feb 27, 2020
Erik Larson on How Winston Churchill Still Shows Us True Leadership During Political Turmoil
Feb 20, 2020
Richie Jackson on What It Takes to Be Gay in America Right Now
Feb 13, 2020
Sylvia Ann Hewlett on #MeToo in the Corporate World
Feb 06, 2020
Richard Stengel on How to Save Our Democracy
Jan 30, 2020
Ada Calhoun on Defining the Midlife Crisis for Women
Jan 23, 2020
Gail Collins on the Adventures of Older Women in American History
Jan 16, 2020
How Beck Dorey-Stein Ended Up at the White House From a Craiglist Ad
Jan 09, 2020
How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities? Wesleyan President Michael Roth Argues for "Safe Enough Spaces"
Dec 19, 2019
Stephen A. Schwarzman on What It Takes to Be Successful
Dec 12, 2019
Just the Right Book: Special Holiday Episode!
Dec 10, 2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Most Intimate Evil of Enslavement
Dec 05, 2019
Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton on The Book of Gutsy Women
Nov 28, 2019
How Do We Escape Family Secrets? Adrienne Brodeur on Her New Memoir
Nov 21, 2019
Mo Rocca on His New Book That Brings New Life to Forgotten Stories
Nov 14, 2019
Susannah Cahalan on the Study That Defined How We Diagnose Mental Illness
Nov 07, 2019
What Do We Give Our Children? Tim O’Brien Contemplates Fatherhood and Writing
Oct 31, 2019
Steve Luxenberg: "Race is Our National Conversation"
Oct 24, 2019
Do Brains Have a Gender? Gina Rippon Debunks the Myth
Oct 17, 2019
James B. Stewart on Going Inside the "Deep State"
Oct 10, 2019
Tatiana Schlossberg Wants You to Be Less Serious About Climate Change
Oct 03, 2019
What Does It Mean to Be Human? Lori Gottlieb on the World of Therapy
Sep 26, 2019
How Do You Become Racist? Alexandra Fuller on Her Childhood in Rhodesia
Sep 19, 2019
Is the World More or Less F*cked Up Than It Used to Be? Tim Desmond on Mindfulness Practices for Real Life
Sep 12, 2019
How Do We Write About Grief? Jayson Greene on Life After Trauma
Sep 05, 2019
How Doing Nothing May Be the Best Way to Focus on the Real World
Aug 29, 2019
Was the Last Pirate of New York City Its First Gangster?
Aug 22, 2019
Brenda Wineapple on What We Can Learn From the First Impeachment
Aug 15, 2019
Lisa Taddeo on the Female Perspective of Sexuality
Aug 08, 2019
One on One with the Author of "The Silent Patient"
Apr 10, 2019
Searching for America's Moral Imagination & "The Common Good"
Mar 14, 2019
Meet the Hosts of "The Librarian Is In"
Mar 01, 2019
Former Obama Staffer Talks Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Feb 22, 2019
Bonus: Live with Madeleine Albright
Feb 18, 2019
Madeleine Albright: Redefining Fascism
Feb 14, 2019
God, Rebellion, & The Beatles; A Coming-Of-Age Story
Feb 07, 2019
10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now!
Jan 31, 2019
Dani Shapiro Uncovers Cathartic Family Secret in Latest Memoir
Jan 23, 2019
The One Book That Offers 5 Principles to Being Fearless!
Jan 17, 2019
Michelle Obama in Her Own Words: An Excerpt from "Becoming"
Jan 11, 2019
Dorie Greenspan's Perfect New Year's Eve Menu!
Dec 26, 2018
How to Make the Ultimate Cheese Plate!
Dec 23, 2018
What The Founding Fathers Would Say About America Today
Dec 12, 2018
The Origins of "Outlander" with Author Diana Gabaldon
Nov 28, 2018
Inside "The Witch Elm" with Tana French
Nov 22, 2018
Steve Jobs' Daughter Finds Her Own Voice in Revealing New Memoir
Nov 15, 2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Nov 08, 2018
"Paper Chase" Author's Latest Novel Explores a Fractured Love Story
Oct 11, 2018
Past #MeToo: Constraints & Imbalances That Shape Women's Lives
Oct 04, 2018
How Doing Nothing Can Make You More Productive
Sep 26, 2018
Anne Bogel Would "Rather Be Reading"; Lithub.com's Book Picks & More
Sep 20, 2018
Senator John McCain in His Own Words: A Tribute
Aug 31, 2018
Sarah Jessica Parker Talks New Imprint, SATC’s Impact on Women & More
Aug 29, 2018
Mark Salter on McCain's Legacy, Presidential Run & His Vision for America
Aug 23, 2018
John McCain's Co-Author, Mark Salter on a Great American Patriot
Aug 22, 2018
Gail Honeyman Says "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"
Jul 26, 2018
Storytelling Tips & Tricks From a Moth Champion
Jul 11, 2018
Is This Your (Financial) Year?
Jun 27, 2018
“I Don't Know How She Does It” Author Does It Again!
Jun 20, 2018
Michael Chabon: A Look at Fatherhood & Writing
Jun 13, 2018
Beyond #MeToo: Addressing Gender Roles in the Workplace
Jun 06, 2018
Tara Westover: From Harrowing Childhood to Cambridge PhD
May 30, 2018
Rachel Kushner Goes Inside a Women’s Prison in “The Mars Room”
May 23, 2018
Re-release: Our Very First Episode with Luvvie Ajayi
May 17, 2018
Re-release: Asking "Ask Amy" About her New Memoir
May 10, 2018
Re-release: Our Guest Elizabeth Strout  
Apr 26, 2018
James Forman Jr. Talks Slavery and His Own Surprising Prejudices
Apr 05, 2018
James Forman Jr. on Political Activism
Mar 29, 2018
"Tiger Mom” Amy Chua Does It Again
Mar 22, 2018
Is Democracy in Danger?
Mar 15, 2018
8 Simple Steps to Help You Through Grief
Mar 09, 2018
Amy Bloom Reads From "White Houses"
Mar 06, 2018
YOU May Be Related to Hillary Clinton
Mar 01, 2018
5 Books From Bustle; A Biofiction on Eleanor Roosevelt's Secret White House Romance
Feb 23, 2018
A.J. Jacobs Reads from "It's All Relative"
Feb 21, 2018
Marriage and the Art of Living Together
Feb 15, 2018
Dear Match Book; Min Jin Lee's "Pachinko" Live
Feb 08, 2018
Inside the WSJ's Book List; Jeff Goodell's "The Water Will Come"
Feb 01, 2018
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul
Jan 25, 2018
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"
Nov 29, 2017
Isabel Allende Finds Love “In the Midst of Winter”
Nov 23, 2017
"Mad Men" Creator Talks Rejection, Tenacity & Debut Novel
Nov 09, 2017
A True Story of Heroism in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Oct 31, 2017
Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Oct 24, 2017
Claire Messud Reads From "The Burning Girl"
Oct 20, 2017
Cheryl Strayed...Into the "Wild" & On to Advice Columns
Oct 18, 2017
"Hamilton" Author's Latest Bio Uncovers a Heroic U.S. Grant
Oct 11, 2017
"The Burning Girl" Blisters With Growing Pains
Sep 27, 2017
25 Books That Will Change Your Life
Aug 30, 2017
Elizabeth Strout Knows "Anything is Possible"
Jul 26, 2017
An Exciting Retelling of a Classic Greek Tragedy
Jul 19, 2017
Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
Jul 05, 2017
John Grisham One on One
Jun 21, 2017
Sarah Dunn Talks Open Marriage, Autism and "The Arrangement"
May 24, 2017
Charles Duhigg on Being "Smarter, Faster & Better"
May 17, 2017
Dani Shapiro on "Time, Memory & Marriage"
May 10, 2017
Kimberly Williams-Paisley Finds Light After Loss
Apr 12, 2017
Jason Stanley tells us "How Propaganda Works"
Mar 22, 2017
Amy Dickinson says "Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things"
Mar 15, 2017
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear...and Why
Mar 01, 2017
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
Jan 25, 2017
Kidnapped and Displayed as Circus Freaks in the Jim Crow South
Jan 04, 2017