A look at what's new: Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein talk about new books from Lauren Groff, Adam Nagourney, and Jacques Pepin. Plus a special look at Diana Athill's Stet: An Editors Life. Buy the books from RJ Julia The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism - Adam Nagourney Stet: An Editor's Life - Diana Athill The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen - Jacques Pépin Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

Roxanne Coady talks with Jeremy Eichler the author of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance – how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of wartime past – specifically looking at the postwar works of Strauss, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, and Britten. Buy the book from RJ Julia Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

Roxanne and Jacques sit down in front of a live audience in Madison, CT to discuss his career, his social media success, and his new book Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking. Buy the book from RJ Julia Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking - Jacques Pépin Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

The podcast discusses the impact of book banning in schools, focusing on LGBTQ themes and the restriction of knowledge. It explores the economic fragility faced by many and the ineffectiveness of banning books. 'The Bluest Eye' by Tony Morrison is highlighted as a powerful book that portrays the experiences of a young black girl.

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Amy Winehouse: In Her Words - Amy Winehouse The Deadline: Essays - Jill Lepore The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight - Andrew Leland Witness: Stories - Jamel Brinkley Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

Rock star Cydny Bullens gets very personal with Roxanne Coady about a life in rock 'n roll, meeting Elton John, grave personal loss and a late life transformation in his memoir, TransElectric: My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star. "I didn't feel safe and I still deal with that today." Buy the book from RJ Julia TransElectric: My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star - Cydny Bullens Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 6 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Happiness Falls - Angie Kim Golden Gate - Amy Chua Time's Mouth - Edan Lepucki Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

Roxanne Coady and Elise Loehnen explore the Seven Deadly Sins—the ancient ideas of morality that still control and distort women’s lives today—and how trusting our natural instincts can return us to a more balanced, peaceful, and spiritually way to live.  Buy the book from RJ Julia On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good - Elise Loehnen  Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 6 books that they are excited about. Buy the books from RJ Julia Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Cousins - Aurora Venturini The Nix - Nathan Hill The Fraud - Zadie Smith Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Anthony T. Kronman to discuss his book, After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy, out now from Yale University Press. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law and a former dean at Yale Law School. He is the author of Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan and Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. He lives on Block Island, Rhode Island. Buy the 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