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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