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    Booked Up with Jen Taub

    Booked Up with Jen Taub features intimate interviews with nonfiction authors. Jen’s guests include writers of current bestsellers and beloved backlist books. Conversations cover love, money, politics, early dreams, writing habits, reading tastes, procrastination techniques, self-doubt, and news of the day. 

    Creator and host, Jen Taub is a law professor, advocate, and author. Her nonfiction books include BIG DIRTY MONEY (Viking 2020) and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES (Yale Press 2014). She focuses on “follow the money” matters— promoting transparency and opposing corruption. 

    Jen’s favorite poem is Prufrock (and yes she knows that Eliot held abhorrent views. She contains multitudes and can separate the dancer from the dance.)

    Taub was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2019 at Harvard Law School and is now a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. A former associate general counsel at Fidelity Investments, she is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.

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    19: The Kneeling Man by Leta McCollough Seletzky Apr 02, 2023
    Show notes This week, Jen’s guest is Leta McCollough Seletzky. Leta is a former litigator who left the law to become a literary sensation. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.
    If you don’t already know her name, you will soon. Leta is the author of a beautiful new memoir that will be published this coming Tuesday, April 4th. It’s called The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Get comfortable, because when you start reading you will not be able to put this book down. THE KNEELING MAN is a spellbinding account of a daughter piecing together her father’s mysterious role present there in an iconic photograph on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel, kneeling beside MLK pressing a white towel to his forehead and pointing across the parking lot in the direction of the assassin. With gorgeous prose and emotional honesty, Leta brings us on her journey to uncover deeply hidden family secrets to better understand our own.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    18: Book Club: SPARE Mar 26, 2023
    Show notes This family has more money than God. Why in the world can’t they get some therapy? A Grandmother who never hugs her grandchildren? A father who does not hug his son after telling him his mother was killed?
    No, our book is not a soap opera, it’s SPARE by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is our Booked Up book club selection this month. Jen’s three special guests in alphabetical order are Christopher Bouzy, Linda Charnes, and Melissa Murray.
    You know Christopher from his big splash of a social media site called Spoutible. Before that he started the site botsentinel which helped social media users spot and report trollbots. When he’s not busy spouting, Christopher finds time to appear in the occasional Netflix documentary, including the recent one on Harry and Meghan. His effort to expose anti-Meghan hate accounts made him the target of plenty of ire himself.
    Linda’s name should be familiar as she was my guest here on Booked Up in late January discussing Hamlet, Talionic Law (aka retributive eye-for-an-eye justice), and America’s revenge fantasies. The author of several brilliant books about Shakespeare, contemporary politics, and political psychology, Linda is a beloved Professor of English, European Studies and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
    And, you probably feel like you know Melissa given her frequent appearances on cable news including as a guest host on several prime time shows on MSNBC. Not just a gifted communicator, Melissa is also the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law
    Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network at NYU. Her award-winning research focuses on the legal regulation of intimate life.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Christopher Bouzy, Linda Charnes, and Melissa Murray
    Chris Bouzy:
    Spoutible| Twitter | Botsentinel

    Linda Charnes:
    Website | Author of HAMLET’S HEIRS and NOTORIOUS IDENTITY
    Melissa Murray:
    Twitter | Website | Strict Scrutiny Podcast
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Follow the Money Substack | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    17: The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee Mar 19, 2023
    Show notes Heather McGhee joins Jen this week to talk about the newly released, young reader edition of her best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Heather’s book helps show how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together. An expert in economic and social policy. Heather is also the former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos and now chairs the board of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.
    Heather and Jen cover the key themes of the book including that shared prosperity is possible and success in America is not a zero-sum game. They also reflect on the personal stories of the ordinary heroes Heather profiles in The Sum of Us. All of this after reminiscing about their work together on bank reform during the Dodd-Frank legislative era in 2010. The episode ends with a discussion on book writing, including how Heather found a writing home away from home at a neighborhood bar called bar Peaches Shrimp and Crab.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Heather McGhee
    Twitter | Website | Author of THE SUM OF US
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Follow the Money substack| Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    16: Ruth Ben-Ghiat Mar 12, 2023
    Show notes This week, my guest Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert in authoritarianism, democracy protection, and propaganda and author of the bestelling book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. Ruth is both a professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. Outside of the classroom, Ruth frequently appears on cable news to discuss the frightening similarities between early fascism in Europe and current movements here in the United States within the Republican party and abroad.
    On today’s episode, I speak wth Ruth about our current crop of authoritarian brutes who use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo to stay in power and what we can do to stop them. To stay current with Ruth’s thinking, you can subscribe to her substack, Lucid or read her and her insightful opinion column with MSNBC.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    Twitter | Website | LUCID Substack | Author of STRONGMEN
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Follow the Money substack| Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    15: Mary Trump Mar 05, 2023
    Show notes You may think that Mary Trump needs no introduction, because you believe you know who she is in relation to a certain distasteful someone who shares her surname. Or you have read her first bestselling book: Too much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Or her equally stellar second, The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal.
    But what an author produces or shares with the public, as well as the degrees they collect (in Mary’s case a BA and MA in English literature as well as a doctorate PhD in clinical psychology) is only a part of who they are. And, it should go without saying that our family of origin is a piece, but not all of us.
    In today’s episode, Mary and Jen get lost in a conversation about books. They start with Mary’s childhood favorite, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, a children's picture book written and illustrated by William Steig that won a Caldecott Medal in 1970. And the conversation continued into weightier tomes like the more than 1,534 page epistolary novel Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson. The 1748 work’s rather lengthly alternative title reveals a bit about the story, but hardly as much as Mary does: The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Mary Trump
    Twitter | The Good in Us Substack | Author of TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH and THE RECKONING
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Follow the Money Substack | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    14: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Feb 26, 2023
    Show notes “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” To help honor Black History Month at Booked Up, for our February book club we are discussing the letter Martin Luther King Jr. composed in April of 1963 from his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. Joining me are two regulars and two special guests. We have book club regulars, conservative attorney George Conway and book publicist Ivan Lett and special guests Bridgette Baldwin and Jonathan Metzl.
    Professor Baldwin teaches courses including Critical Race Theory and criminal law at Western New England University School of Law. Her scholarly work has examined the intersection of the Ninth Amendment and social movements, as well as, the convergence of race, class and gender on welfare reform legislation.
    Professor Metzl is the author of several books including most recently the acclaimed Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland. During the podcast he also mentioned The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. He is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Book Club Members
    Bridgette Baldwin
    Facebook | Website | Author of WISCONSIN WORKS?
    George Conway
    Twitter | On Morning Joe | Author of Atlantic article Unfit for Office
    Ivan Lett
    Twitter | Website | Author of HAARLEM REBORN
    Jonathan Metzl
    Twitter | Website | Author of DYING OF WHITENESS and THE PROTEST PSYCHOSIS among others
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    13: How We Win The Civil War with Steve Phillips Feb 19, 2023
    Show notes This week best-selling author Steve Phillips opens up about the very recent loss of his remarkable wife Susan Sandler and their shared goals on how to move America toward a multi-racial democracy.
    In the dedication to her of his new book, How We Win the Civil War, Steve writes, “The reality of cancer forces one to a more spirtual place of contemplating life, meaning, and legacy. That reflection has fueled my work on this book to try to make it a lasting legacy for both of us.”
    Steve notes that the post 2020 election coup “was not the first time a large percentage of American people chose whiteness over democracy in the wake of an election whose outcome they did not like.” He uses humor when he writes about the urgency of facing America’s anti-democratic drift. “Imagine if Revere had instead ambled down the street saying, ‘We’re going to invite the British to dinner and see if we can reach a bipartisan agreement. Sinema and Manchin are bringing the clam chowder.’”
    Steve Phillips is a New York Times bestselling author of How Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority and political expert. He is the host of "Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips," a color-conscious political podcast, and founder of Democracy in Color, a multimedia platform on race and politics.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Steve Phillips
    Twitter | Website | Author of HOW WE WIN THE CIVIL WAR and BROWN IS THE NEW WHITE

    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    12: Servants of the Damned by David Enrich Feb 12, 2023
    Show notes This week Jen speaks with David Enrich about his nationwide bestseller, Servants of the Damned, praised by David Cay Johnston in the Washington Post as “A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice."
    While other large corporate law firms appear in Servants of the Damned, David explains why he made one firm in particular the centerpiece. He views Jones Day as one of the chief enablers of the most corrupt actors over recent decades. Clients include Big Tobacco whom the firm continually represented in efforts to avoid products liability. Jones Day also represented Pudue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive OxyContin, the Catholic Church in efforts to minimize consequences for child-sexual-abuse, and Russian oligarchs. Jones Day even “laid some of the legal groundwork for Trump to challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election,” David explains.
    David is the business investigations editor at The New York Times. His previous books were Dark Towers, about Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump, and The Spider Network about UBS trader and apparent fall guy, Tom Hayes.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from David Enrich
    Twitter | New York Times Webpage| Author of SERVANTS OF THE DAMNED, DARK TOWERS and THE SPIDER NETWORK
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    11: Lisa Guerrero Feb 05, 2023
    Show notes This week, Jen’s guest is the award-winning journalist Lisa Gurrero, on to talk about her new book Warrior: My Path to Being Brave. Lisa is a pioneer in the field of sportsbroadcasting enduring verbal abuse and sexual harrassment. She began her sports career in the 1980s as an NFL cheerleader, then directed entertainment including the cheerleading squads for the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. At the Patriots, the boss’s son told her to remove all of the “Black music” from the playlist and put the cheerleaders in skimpier outfits and high heels instead of sneakers. She refused and was fired but fought back with a lawsuit.
    Lisa was a pioneer sportsbroadcaster who later broke ground as the first woman sidelines reporter for Monday Night Football. In that role, she strained to put up with a toxic, hostile boss and suffered a miscarriage while at the game, but only shared her story now.
    Smart, focused, and persistent, Lisa built her entertainment career in sports as well as in acting, starring in the Aaron Spelling soap opera Sunset Beach in the 1990s, among other roles. In 2006, Lisa begcane a reporter for Inside Edition and has used her platform to make a difference. Now as the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Inside Edition, she exposes scams, child abuse and cold-case murders for an audience of 5 million viewers.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Lisa Guerrero
    Twitter | Website |Author of WARRIOR: MY PATH TO BEING BRAVE

    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

    10: Book Club: January 6th Committee Report Jan 29, 2023
    Show notes Who knows? One day perhaps we will look back on this episode of Booked Up to find out that Donald Trump has faced a different kind of booking. Or at least an indictment. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Today for our January book club meeting we are following the facts by discussing the content and implications of the Final Report of the Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the US. Capitol..
    We have two special guests. Andrew Weissman, lead prosecutor in the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation and NYU law professor. And, Jill Wine-Banks: Watergate prosecutor and the first woman to serve as general counsel of the Army. Jill is the author of Watergate Girl, and Andrew of Where Law Ends.
    Contact Booked Up:
    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:
    BOOKED UP
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061
    Get More from Book Club Members and Special Guests
    Andrew Weissman
    Twitter | Website | Author of WHERE LAW ENDS
    Jill Wine-Banks
    Twitter | Website | Author of WATERGATE GIRL
    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY

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