Booked Up with Jen Taub
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
59: Sgt. Aquillino Gonell
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today nearly three years after the attack on the US Capitol my guest is American hero, Aquillino Gonell, author of the new book American Shield: The I...
58: Norman Lear: Even This I Get to Experience
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Booked Up, a podcast that features you, me and our favorite authors. We release a new episode every Sunday morning. Today for the D...
57: THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE with Rob Verchick
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Verchick, author of the award-winning new book, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience is Jen’s guest today. Why this...
56: THESE ARE THE PLUNDERERS with authors Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are doing Jen’s favorite thing: following the big dirty money. This time the focus is on the world of private equity. Those two words toget...
55: Chuck Collins on ALTAR TO AN ERUPTING SUN
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck Collins, author of several works of nonfiction including The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions is Jen’s guest t...
54: Orly Lobel on THE EQUALITY MACHINE
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Jen’s guest is Orly Lobel, author of the recent book THE EQUALITY MACHINE: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future...
53: THE WOMAN IN ME by Britney Spears
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For our special book club episode today, we are discussing the new bestselling memoir – THE WOMAN IN ME by pop icon Britney Spears. As you know, Bri...
52: Taylor Lorenz is EXTREMELY ONLINE
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Jen’s guest is Taylor Lorenz, author of the new book, Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. Togeth...
51: Andrea Chalupa on DICTATORSHIP IS EASY
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Jen’s guest is journalist, filmmaker, author, and activist Andrea Chalupa. You know Andrea from her award-winning podcast Gaslit Nation that s...
50: Illeana Douglas on CONNECTICUT IN THE MOVIES
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Film star Illeana Douglas is Jen’s guest today. Ileana is the author of the gorgeous new book: Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark ...
49: ENOUGH by Cassidy Hutchinson
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today for the October book club, Jen Taub’s friends, authors Jennifer Rubin and Brian Karem discuss Cassidy Hutchinson’s new best-selling memoir, ...
48: TRAE CROWDER & COREY RYAN FORRESTER on Round Here And Over Yonder
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The hilarious self-named “progressive hillbilly” comedians Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester are Jen’s guests today. They co-authored the su...
47: ZEKE FAUX on NUMBER GO UP
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zeke Faux, author of the new bestseller, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall is Jen’s guest today. Of all the books, and ...
46: MICHAEL LEWIS on Going Infinite
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Michael Lewis joins Jen Taub today to talk about Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, his new book that focuses on Sam Bankman-Fr...
45: WOMEN IN INTELLIGENCE with Helen Fry
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are extraordinarily grateful that historian and biographer Dr. Helen Fry made time for us right as her latest book Women in Intelligence: The Hidde...
44: TUCKER with Rick Wilson and Martin Pengelly
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Believe or not, this month’s Booked Up Book Club is TUCKER, the book, the man, the walking grievance machine. It’s true, Jen read Chadwick Moore’...
43: ALI VELSHI: Banned Book Club
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Velshi is Jen’s guest today. You know him as an anchor and business correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. His show Velshi appears every Saturday...
42: Hadley Vlahos, THE IN-BETWEEN
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hadley Vlahos is the author of the bestelling new book The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments. She is a hospice regist...
41: LAWYER, JAILER, ALLY, FOE with Eric Muller
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this haunting new book, LAWYER, JAILER, ALLY, FOE, Eric L. Muller brings into vivid color a world that is largely forgotten paper records. It’s n...
40: Trump Booked Up Club with Jill Wine-Banks and Morgan Cloud
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is the subject of our book club today. Trump is not known to be a big reader or even an author – his most popular book Art of the Deal,...
39: Connie Schultz: She’s every genre
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Connie Schultz is Jen’s guest today. Connie is the author of two memoirs. Her first Life Happens: And Other Unavoidabl...
38: A PLACE FOR US with Brandon Wolf
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Wolf, author of the memoir A Place for Us joins Jen on Booked Up today. Brandon is a survivor of the 2016 horric domestic terror attack at Pul...
37: WHY SINÉAD O'CONNOR MATTERS with Allyson McCabe
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Booked Up guest is Allyson McCabe, author of the deeply felt, carefully researched book, Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters, which was published...
36: BARBIE Book club with George Hahn & M.G. Lord
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today is all about BARBIE. The new film, the doll, the legend. Too much hype? No, not enough. This month’s new blockbuster film directed by Greta Gu...
35: Ben McKenzie
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jen’s guest today is Ben McKenzie, author of the new book EASY MONEY: CRYPTOCURRENCY, CASINO CAPITALISM, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRAUD. In this incred...
34: FANCY BEAR GOES PHISHING: Scott Shapiro
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jen’s guest today is Professor Scott J. Shapiro, author of the new book FANCY BEAR GOES PHISHING. That’s phishing with a PH. But Fancy with an F, ...
33: Kathy Griffin is back, bitches!
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy Griffin is Jen’s guest today. They cover everything from her life on the D-List to her cameo in Pulp Fiction (while she was dating Quentin Tar...
32: A MINOR REVOLUTION with Adam Benforado
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jen’s guest is Adam Benforado, author of the compelling new book A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All. The Atlanti...
31: E. Jean Carroll and Mary Trump on their Backstory Serial
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As featured in The New York Times, Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll are collaborating with Jen on a serialized romance novel called THE ITALIAN LESSON. ...
30: YES, I CAN SAY THAT by Judy Gold
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
They kvetched, they kvelled, they talked about Hitler. Naturally. What did you expect? This week Jen’s guest is two-time Emmy-Award winning comedian...
29: ACCEPTANCE by David L. Marcus
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Jen’s guest is her long-time friend and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David L. Marcus. They talk about Dave’s latest book Acceptance: A ...
28: NAZI BILLIONAIRES by David de Jong
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jen’s guest is David de Jong, the author of a mindblowing new narrative nonfiction book called Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s We...
27: Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week for the book club, we have poet Maggie Smith talking about her tell-most own new bestselling memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful. Yo...
26: Steve Vladeck on THE SHADOW DOCKET
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jen’s guest is Professor Steve Vladeck, author of the sensational new book: The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings ...
25: Ben Smith on TRAFFIC
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jen’s guest is Ben Smith, author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. This hot new book take...
24: Anastasia Curwood on her new biography of Shirley Chisholm
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jen’s guest on Booked Up is Anastasia Curwood. They discuss her insightful new biography Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Pow...
23: Book Club: YOUR BOOK!
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Booked Up with Jen Taub has a special episode for April’s book club. The topic is your book.” You’re the author, it’s you. Today we are talk...
22: Wajahat Ali Go Back to Where You Came From
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his written work and public persona, Wajahat Ali is known for his quick wit. Humor seems to come naturally to him, and yet, he has turned his gift ...
21: Carissa Byrne Hessick
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jen speaks with Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick about her remarkable book, Punishment without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal. Her book goes ...
20: Elie Honig asks –– is Donald Trump Untouchable?
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jen’s guest is her good friend Elie Honig. Elie is a former prosecutor and currently a Senior Legal Analyst at CNN. At the Southern Distr...
19: The Kneeling Man by Leta McCollough Seletzky
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 En...
18: Book Club: SPARE
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
17: The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ev...
16: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, my guest Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert in authoritarianism, democracy protection, and propaganda and author of the bestelling book, S...
15: Mary Trump
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
14: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Wh...
13: How We Win The Civil War with Steve Phillips
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
12: Servants of the Damned by David Enrich
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jen speaks with David Enrich about his nationwide bestseller, Servants of the Damned, praised by David Cay Johnston in the Washington Post a...
11: Lisa Guerrero
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 pionee...
10: Book Club: January 6th Committee Report
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
9: Hamlet’s Heirs with Linda Charnes
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Linda Charnes –– Professor of English, European Studies and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington where she has taught since 198...
8: Lauren Hough
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Hough is the author of the New York Times bestseller, LEAVING ISN’T THE HARDEST THING, a collection of essays about growing up in the abusive...
7: INVASION by Luke Harding
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly a year into Russia’s Febuary 2022 invasion of Ukraine, journalist and author Luke Harding reflects on the people he met in the war zone while...
6: The Unfolding by A. M. Homes
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A.M Homes is an award-winning nonfiction author, novelist, short-storry writer, playwright, and librettist. This is the first time she and Jen speak t...
5: Book Club: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
25 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We kvetched, we laughed, we cried. Never-Trumper George Conway and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll puzzled over Jen’s selection for this month’s ...
4: The Shrink Next Door with Joe Nocera
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist and author of several books including indentured and All the Devils are Here, Joe Nocera talks with Jen about the crooked psychiatrist Isaa...
3: Michael Cohen
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Cohen was the personal lawyer and fixer for Donald J. Trump for more than a decade. He is now a top-selling author and host of the popular Mea...
2: Dahlia Lithwick
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dahlia Lithwick –– senior editor at Slate and author of the instant New York Times bestseller, LADY JUSTICE –– joined Jen for the inaugural ...
1: Booked Up with Jen Taub - Trailer
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jen’s guests include writers of current bestsellers and beloved backlist books. Conversations cover love, money, politics, early dreams, writing hab...