
Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
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.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 21min
JTRB Shorts #17 - A quick look at what's new
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.
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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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Oct 19, 2023 • 57min
Time’s Echo with Jeremy Eichler
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.
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Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler
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Oct 12, 2023 • 51min
Cooking My Way: Live with Jacques Pépin
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.
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Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking - Jacques Pépin
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Oct 5, 2023 • 28min
Banned Books
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.

Sep 28, 2023 • 23min
JTRB Shorts #16 - A quick look at what's new
In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 4 books that they are excited about.
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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
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Sep 21, 2023 • 1h 7min
My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star with Cydny Bullens
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."
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TransElectric: My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star - Cydny Bullens
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Sep 14, 2023 • 23min
JTRB Shorts #15 - A quick look at what's new
In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 6 books that they are excited about.
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Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Happiness Falls - Angie Kim
Golden Gate - Amy Chua
Time's Mouth - Edan Lepucki
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Sep 7, 2023 • 54min
The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to be Good with Elise Loehnen
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.
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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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Aug 31, 2023 • 24min
JTRB Shorts #14 - A quick look at what's new
In this week's "short" Roxanne and Bill discuss 6 books that they are excited about.
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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
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Aug 24, 2023 • 1h 3min
How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment with Anthony T. Kronman
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.
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After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy
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