Episodes
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“About that turkey smell...” Turkey Palooza! Lots of advice for Michael’s Tgiving. Politics doctor Jeanne Safer offers up sage advice for loved ones with political divides. Don’t mix politics and alcohol and keep your voice down! DC’s best, Nevin Martell, talks Founding Farmers/Red Truck cookbooks, the wonders of duck fat and calms Michael’s concerns about that turkey smell.
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“Captain Kirk Gets His Carpaccio.” Happy birthday Margaret Atwood — even if we don’t read your books. Jeanne, David, Michael and Torie all distrust blurbs. Richard Armstrong talks mobs and movie stars and Shakespeare and The Don Con, where mafia meets comic-con.
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Improbable! The NATS with David who is back! Michael loves “real” reading to the munchkins. Jeanne convinces Torie on Books of the Century. Kathleen Barber combines murder mystery w/ social media and crushes with Are You Sleeping, soon to be Truth Be Told on Apple TV.
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Moral of the story: Listen to the man next to you on the plane. NATS fever reigns at the undisclosed location. Pros and Cons of literary awards (mostly pro). Jamie, Jeanne and Torie give personalized book picks. Tope Folarin wows us with A Particular Kind of Black Man: A Novel, a gripping and unique take on identity in America.
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NATS, literary cocktails and a Dutch painter rediscovered.
David reports on “two games away” NATS. Rockstar mixologist Chantal creates cocktails that cover literary trains, Tara and trips. Jeanne curates impeachment books. Featured author Carrie Callaghan rediscovers a painting heroine from 17th century Holland.
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Jeanne’s on top of the Constitution. Torie challenges Jamie McIntyre and Jeanne to Whose Line is it Anyway? David joins from NATS Park and Zach Powers talks Soviet space fraud and his book First Cosmic Velocity.
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“Oprah called me honey” Jeanne finds surprises on the best sellers list and David wins the whistleblower pop quiz. Award winning author Wil Haygood talks best pals Oprah and Denzel and awes the crowd at One More Page Books with Tigerland, the highly improbable story of young men whose basketball and baseball success healed a troubled city.
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Jamie McIntyre, Jeanne and Torie debate Edward Snowden and publishing errors gone wild. Ed Aymar talks crime and punishment and Cafe Noir and his latest thriller — The Unrepentant.
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We love and hate Agatha Christie. Liz Clarke gives David Aldridge tips on covering NASCAR and talks One Helluva Ride - her deep look into where racing was and where it's going. And the gang predicts who will write the best Jeffrey Epstein book.
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From classics to cosmonauts to missing in action. Michael’s stuck on the 9th tee so Liz Clarke fills in. The gang hates Handmaid’s Tale and questions the sequel. Jeanne rises above with classic best sellers. Novelist Zach Powers wants to talk Soviets and space and life and his book First Cosmic Velocity but phones fail, so he’ll come back another day. And David crushes celebrities read classics!
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Jeanne, David, Michael and Torie discussed thank you cards, Michael read excerpts of Benito Mussolini and the team discussed what books they believe Freshmen should be reading. Laurie Gillman, owner of East City Bookshop, shared her journey to opening the book store. The featured author this week was David Epstein; his latest book is Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World". "If you could come back in another life and was back on the island alone, what author would you like to come back as?" was the question for this edition of Deserted Island.
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Jeanne, David, Michael and Torie discussed Tom Brady's parenting decisions, played true or false and featured Ron Charles, Book Critic of the Washington Post. Deserted Island this week posed the questions "What books are in your guest room?"
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Torie has random thoughts and questions. Michael Sands does CW wine and cheese in person. Jeanne, Marc and Michael mostly trash NYT “best” memoirs. And Professor Michael Croley covers golf, teaching and the displaced lives in his book Any Other Place: Stories.
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Jeanne, David, Jamie McIntyre (filling in for Michael and Marc) and Torie spoke with Angie Kim, author Miracle Creek. With the Fourth of July right around the corner, for Deserted Island the crew suggested their favorite patriotic books.
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Chatter on Books turns 30! On this episode the gang (minus Michael) give some book club therapy to a men's book club. Then they welcome in their guest authors : Susan Swain and Brian Lamb to discuss the book the out together with C-Span and a host of historians, "The Presidents" which ranks all the Presidents (except for President Trump, since he is still in the middle of his term of office). Then they close things out with some book recommendations for expecting parents!
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On today's episode (minus David) the gang talk about the great things going on at Calvert Woodley Liquors (and La Cheeserie!), plus Jeanne gives her book report on "Goldfinch". Then they welcome in Lelia Nebeker and Amanda Quain from the independent bookstore "One More Page Books" in Arlington VA, to talk about their love books and what goes on at their store - and they play the "Newlyread Game" with the gang to see how much they know about each other's reading habits, and they finish off with the Deserted Island by talking about books that are too smart for them!
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On today's episode, the gang talk about Art and whether it should be for one person or the whole world, and the influence of technology on books and whether it has been a good thing, and they get an update on Jeanne's book report on "Goldfinch". Then they welcome in author Jon Ward to talk about his book "Camelot's End" which is about the battle between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1980, and they close out with what "hot"books they read as kids!
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On today's show, Jeanne gives an update on her book report, and they all give thoughts on summer reading - what to read and how to read it. Then they welcome in Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss to discuss his latest book "A Good American Family : The Red Scare and My Father", and they close out by talking about what books would make great wedding gifts!
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