This week on the show, we have author and journalist Jo Piazza as our guest. Jo’s most recent release isCharlotte Walsh Likes to Win, a novel about a woman running for senate in the 2018 midterm elections. It is very of the moment, and is the Marie Claire Book Club pick for September. Jo talks to us about her time as a journalist, challenges women face in running for office, and why she likes reading books that aren’t new releases.

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BOOKS

• Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza
• How to Be Married by Jo Piazza
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Eagen
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Eagen
• Florida by Lauren Groff
• You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
• The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
• No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
• The Mothers by Brit Bennett
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
• The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
• Primary Colors by Anonymous and Joe Klein
• Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Audiobook)
• David Sedaris
• Unbelievable by Katy Tur
• The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
• The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Love Rehab by Jo Piazza
• Judy Bloom
• Beverly Cleary
• Blubber by Judy Bloom
• Summer Sisters by Judy Bloom
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Marie Claire Book Club (Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win)
• Jay-Z
• Sean Combs (Puff Daddy, Diddy)
• Jo’s Cute Baby (Via Jo’s Instagram)
• Committed (HowStuffWorks)
• How Stuff Works
• “I Don’t Own Him” (Committed, HowStuffWorks)
• “We’ll Figure It Out” (Committed, HowStuffWorks)
• Slow Burn (Slate)
• The Sunday Long Read
• Emily’s List
• Dirty John
• Cliff’s Notes
• Shonda Rhimes
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
• Phenomenal Woman T-Shirt

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