Booked Up with Jen Taub: Intimate Interviews with Nonfiction Authors
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.
You can write to Jen and the Booked Up team at: bookedup@politicon.com or Booked Up, P.O. Box 147, Northampton, MA 01061
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Heather McGhee: The Sum of Us
March 19, 2023 · 1:02:05
Hoping to stay above the book-banning fray, Heather McGhee talks with Jen about publishing the young reader edition of her New York Times bestseller, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
March 12, 2023 · 1:03:49
Jen talks with Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat about why the current “authoritarian ascendance” here in the United States and around the globe “is one of the most pressing matters of our time” and how we can and must combat it.
Mary Trump
March 5, 2023 · 1:11:26
Jen gets Mary to reveal her favorite books from childhood to the present, and attempts to have her predict how soon her odious uncle might be indicted.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
February 26, 2023 · 1:19:49
In our third meeting of the Booked Up book club, Bridgette Baldwin, George Conway, Ivan Lett, and Jonathan Metzl share their thoughts with Jen Taub about a crucial text of the Civil Right’s Movement –– Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
How We Win The Civil War with Steve Phillips
February 19, 2023 · 1:02:02
Why do Democrats fail to recognize or discuss America’s dangerous anti-democratic drift? How do we finally win the Civil War? Best-selling author Steve Phillips answers these and other questions this week on Booked Up.
Servants of the Damned by David Enrich
February 12, 2023 · 58:30
Best-selling author David Enrich shares shocking and shameful stories behind his new book Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice, and the result of the practice of law transitioning from a profession to a business.
Lisa Guerrero
February 5, 2023 · 1:08:34
On Booked Up this week, Lisa Guerrero, author of Warrior: My Path to Being Brave, breaks it all down and pieces it back together like the Gaudí inspired mosaics she makes to unwind.
January 6th Committee Report
January 29, 2023 · 1:11:44
Jen is joined by a superstar legal team to talk about the January 6th Committee report on the attack on the U.S. Capitol and whether teflon Don’s coating will ever erode.
Hamlet’s Heirs with Linda Charnes
January 22, 2023 · 1:13:16
Linda Charnes, author of Hamlet’s Heirs, immerses in a conversation with Jen about attempting to evade a past that refuses to be silent, reading Shakespeare for the present, and learning to fly.
Lauren Hough
January 15, 2023 · 1:05:35
This week Jen speaks with Lauren Hough, author of the bestselling memoir LEAVING ISN’T THE HARDEST THING about growing up in and life after escaping from the Children of God cult. They also talk about Lauren going viral with that “cable guy” twitter thread, and what she’s writing next. Hint, it involves her beloved dog, Woody.