Ann Patchett is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville and the author of seven novels. In 2012, Time Magazine named her as one of their 100 Most Influential People in the World. The Bel Canto author recently joined "Just the Right Book" from her home in Nashville to talk about being a bookseller and about her most personal novel to date, Commonwealth. “My father was dying as I was writing this novel,” Ann tells Roxanne. “I knew he’d hate this book, but I knew I was writing it because he was never going to read it.” The specific actions of the characters are not the same, but the emotions are. “As my mother would say, ‘None of it happened, and all of it is true.’”
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Books in this episode:
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Author, professor, philosopher, Jason Stanley stopped by the Just the Right Book studios to talk propaganda, how it works and how language influences the way we think and reason about public issues. The "How Propaganda Works" author holds a PhD from MIT, has taught philosophy at Cornell, University of Michigan and Rutgers, and is now a professor of philosophy at Yale University. Also in this episode, Roxanne gives us some of her favorite picks from the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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Books in this episode:
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Soujourner Truth
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
You probably know Amy Dickinson from the nationally syndicated advice column "Ask Amy", which is carried in over 150 newspapers and read by an estimated 22 million readers daily! She is also a best-selling author and featured panelist on NPR's popular comedy quiz show "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me." Amy's new book "Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home", picks up where her New York Times best-selling memoir, "The Mighty Queens of Freeville" left off. She recently joined "Just the Right Book" to chat about finding love at middle-age, the heartbreak of caring for an ailing parent at the end of life and of course her moving back to her hometown of Freeville, NY.
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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home by Amy Dickinson
The Strand Book Store is New York City's legendary home of "18 miles" of new, used and rare books. This episode features a special installment of our segment, "What's on the Front Table." The Strand's head buyer, Carson Moss, joined Just the Right Book from their East Village location to give Roxanne the scoop on the rumored quiz every prospective employee must take and what's on their front table. Also in this episode, Roxanne shares some of her book recommendations in her segment "What You Need to Know."
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Books in this episode:
Ulysses By James Joyce
Dreamtigers By Jorge Luis Borges
Shadowbahn By Steve Erickson
Norse Mythology By Neil Gaiman
Langdon Clay: Cars: New York City 1974-1976 By Langdon Clay (photographer)
Animals By Ingela P. Arrhenius
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty By Dorothy Roberts
We Should All Be Feminists By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Long Drop By Denise Mina
The Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
March by John Lewis
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
Sady Doyle is an award-winning writer and journalist who's work has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, just to name a few. The Brooklyn resident and founder of the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown joined Roxanne to talk about her latest book "Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear...and Why.” In her interview, Sady talks about Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Hillary Clinton, Marilyn Monroe and even Mary Wollstonecraft. Later in the episode, Just the Right Book hits the streets of the Big Apple to find out what people are reading in NYC.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear…and Why By Sady Doyle
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon