June 7, 2025 • 11 mins
Lisa was in Nashville last weekend and they needed to chat about it! Lisa talked all about the amazing book event she attended, meeting Jenna Bush Hager and possibly going again next year!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome into Lisa's book Club Saturday Bonus Chapter edition with
producer Riley Here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Riley, Hello, this is so much fun. I love doing this.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I know we get so much amazing feedback. I was
actually just at a graduation pre event party and one
of the moms came up to me and she's like,
I just want you to know I'm really enjoying the
Lisa's book Club podcast really and the bonus chapter.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I get that all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So yeah, so keep telling us what you want DM,
both of us. But anyway, so I want to share
with you all that I took a really amazing trip
last weekend. I went to the Read with Jenna book Festival.
It's with Jenna bush Hager from the Today Show.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
She has been.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Doing her book club for six years. And she was
so cute when she came out on stage in Nashville
and said that we're now in kindergarten as a group.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But she really champions.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
New authors, authors with a voice, and and Hildebrand was
there among other writers like Chris Whittaker, and it was
just an amazing weekend that you got to sit through
Q and a's and you got to meet all of
the authors, and it was just a really great mix
of people and I can't wait to go back next year.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It sounded like a lot of fun. All your pictures
were so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
She I have to say, Jenna bush Hager was so nice,
so gracious, so funny, self deprecating, and I just loved
hearing from her, and I loved being in Music City.
She had some amazing local musicians performing each night, and
again we got to meet all of the authors. And
(01:45):
I have some exciting news that Chris Whitaker, who wrote
All the Colors of the Dark, will be joining us
for Lisa's book Club in September.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, you have to read that book. We had talked
about it a couple of months ago. You had asked
me what book I would recommend, and I said that
to you, it's really long. It's over six hundred pages, okay,
but it's it's so worth it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay. I did not put that connection together when you
had told me this news and from the previous talk
we had about that book, So okay, I'll write it down.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So and then authors like Anne Patchett were there, who
everyone knows and she has a really successful bookstore in Nashville,
just like Judy Bloom.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Does in Key West. Wait, that's cute, Yeah, very cute.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
She was the first author that came out, and then
the second speaker was Ellen Hildebrand, and Ellen and Jenna
are working on a project together. They couldn't really give
us many details, but it does involve a screen project,
and that's something that Jenna's really been working on. She's
she you know, is producing projects now from some of
(02:54):
the books that she gets behind, and it's been really exciting.
So other authors or Amity Gage, she wrote Hartwood, Christina Henriquez,
she wrote The Great Divide, and Emma Strobe wrote All
Adults Here. So they all spoke. And Tiffany Hattish was
also there. Oh that's cool on stage. Yeah, she came
in after lunch and she wrote a book. And it
(03:17):
was just really cool seeing Tiffany and Jenna together on stage.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It looks like so much fun. All I could think
about was like, this could be Lisa's book Club.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It had definite vibes of Lisa's Book Club, I will
say that. And I was actually very proud when I
walked away from that because we started ours three years
ago and there's a lot of similar elements because all
of my events are in person.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So you know, Jenna picks books.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
She's picked over eighty authors and fifty of them have
been you know, have been New York Times bestsellers because
of her doing that and telling people these are really
good books that you should be reading. So what she's
doing for the community, for the author comunity is amazing.
But also just like giving us great books that we
(04:04):
may not have known about before.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, it's like the influence, right, the way that people
get influenced to read. Yeah, so they might not have
heard of.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And she was a big reader growing up. She told
a story about how she would, you know, sit and
read books. Her mother was a librarian, which I didn't know,
so she really I don't know. She gave a lot
of really nice personal details about her life and how
this starting this book club six years ago has you know,
helped her. And she did say it's a lot of work,
and I was like, oh, I'm glad she says that,
(04:34):
because it is a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But ye, you know, she's really.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Passionate about it, and I'm really passionate about it too,
So I thought that that was really nice.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Was there anything that she did that you saw that
you might have been like, ooh, I'm gonna steal that
or like borrow something of the that nature.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, she did like during the day on Saturday, she
did do a pop up, you know with but I've
done local you know, business pop ups too, so I
did like the musical element of what she did.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So she you know, she.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Featured a singer at the Friday night VIP reception and
then another one on Saturday night. So I've always thought,
since we're a radio station that we should be including
more music, and we've talked about having a comedian at
one of them. So yeah, I think that we could
definitely build out some other elements of the program.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That would be really cool, like for the I mean
for any book club, but especially for like the big
ones that like Big Night Live. That just makes it
even more of a.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Draw, right they are something like during the cocktail re.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Set, right and they already sell out, so now it's
just going to be even more people trying to get in.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, So I think if that was the one element
I would I would definitely add that in.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, And I know in Nashville there's a lot of
like young up and coming artists because a lot of
artists that are new to their career moved to Nashville.
So I'm sure it's very easy.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
To get it made sense right.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So hopefully it's not as hard in Boston.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't think it will be. I mean, we have
the you know, Berkeley College of Music here, true, we
could tell we have so many connections, We have so
many connections. Yeah, that could be really fun. The other
thing that she said that I really related to, because
I had just said it at a party recently, was
that I view authors as my rock stars. And I
(06:17):
was serious, like, they are my Taylor Swifts, like, because
they're just so interesting and I always loved to ask
them like how did you come up with this story?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Like did you start from the beginning? Like how long
did it take you?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So and they love telling their stories, which I really appreciate.
So I love that Jenna and I are like we
had the same feeling about that too. And I will
say that I was standing in the airport in Nashville
on Sunday waiting for my friend, a mom friend of
mine that came with me who's a lover of books too.
We had such a great sort of girl's weekend. So
I was standing there by myself waiting for her to
(06:51):
go through TSA, and Jenna came up to me in
the airport and she knew. She was like, Oh, I
hope you had a great time, and this is so
exciting see you next year. And I was like, I
was like, oh my god, you're talking to me like
I'm a person. You're on the Today Show, but you're
also like the President's daughter, and your grandfather was the
(07:11):
President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You like you're like a big deal, you know, and
you kind of know who I am.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I just was like, that's who she is. Though
she's so gracious and fun and cool.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Did you get to like tell her anything about yourself
or was it just real quick?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, so Friday night at this VIP reception, we went
up to her and well, I have to give a
shout out out to Shannon Pasternak, who is doing some
book club publicity for authors here locally, like she represents
Christy Scott Cashman, who did my book club recently, and
so she suggested that I go to this event in Nashville,
(07:48):
and I'm glad I took her up on it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So she was at the event.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So we walk in because our flight was delayed about
an hour, so we were like at the tail end
of getting to the cocktail reception. And at one point
I said to my friend Nicole, I'm like, should we
even go? Like we missed most of it? And then
we're like, you know what, We'll go. So glad we went.
So Shannon was there and then we walked over and
she actually introduced me to Jenna because she had already
(08:11):
been there and met her and then started saying, well,
Lisa has a book club in Boston. And then then
that was my entry into telling her about what we're
doing with this book club here at Kiss and with
iHeart and going to other cities and expanding our circle
and our influence into other markets with iHeart and their
morning shows and raising money for charities, especially literacy charities,
(08:35):
and the circle just keeps growing. And she was so
excited to hear what we've been doing and when I've
been doing that.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I really I loved that too. It was really genuine.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
This is crazy because you know how they say like
always have an elevator pitch, You never know that literally
came in handy for you.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I think it was. Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But it was honestly, it was like it's dear to
my heart. It was like it was something that I
loved talking about and she could see that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know, it's just really exciting.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Always have that in common.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We do.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, I mean she's at a totally different level, but
you know, but only for now. But yeah, but honestly, like, yeah,
she's she's a pretty cool lady.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's awesome. Did you do anything else in Nashville that
you want to recommend to our listeners?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We went and we got cowboy boots.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Are they the boots that you wore on Monday or
those are different pair?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Those are a different pair.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I got a pair of like off white cowboy boots
that are next level comfortable from like lu Casey I
think is how you pronounce it. It was really close
to We stayed at the w that's where the book
festival was, so it was within walking distance and I'm
so glad that I got them, Like, I'll wear them
for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
They're the most comfortable shoes I own.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, send me a picture. I want to see them.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Maybe I wear on tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So it was really fun and maybe next year you
can come with me.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I know it did look a lot like I wish
that I could have swung it, but well, you never know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You never know, you know what, Maybe we'll build it
into to the budget next year.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
There you go, right, or you'll be speaking at it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Imagine, you never know.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Maybe I can host one of the breakout sessions with
one of the authors, because Ellen Hildebrand was Aaron Tim
who does her podcast with her Tim and his instagram
is Tim Talk Talks Books. He was there and he
he hosted one of the breakout sessions. Perfect, And we're
having Tim on the show very very soon because he
is a part of the Nantucket Book Festival. And Billy Costa,
(10:29):
who is an author, will be there too. So this
is all it's all coming together.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We'll circle Riley. Oh my god. Yeah, Lisa like very
exciting stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I wish people could see your face, like you're overcome
with this, like you just feel the passion when you're
speaking to you about it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So yeah, we have we have some really amazing authors
coming up. Jody Pico, we have, like I said, Chris Whitaker,
we have Patricia Cornwell, we have Ellen Hildebrand with her
new book The Academy, we have doctor Paracone. So these
are all book Club Lisa's book Club authors that will
be with us in the next couple of months.
Welcome into Lisa's book Club Saturday Bonus Chapter edition with
producer Riley Here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Riley, Hello, this is so much fun. I love doing this.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I know we get so much amazing feedback. I was
actually just at a graduation pre event party and one
of the moms came up to me and she's like,
I just want you to know I'm really enjoying the
Lisa's book Club podcast really and the bonus chapter.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I get that all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So yeah, so keep telling us what you want DM,
both of us. But anyway, so I want to share
with you all that I took a really amazing trip
last weekend. I went to the Read with Jenna book Festival.
It's with Jenna bush Hager from the Today Show.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
She has been.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Doing her book club for six years. And she was
so cute when she came out on stage in Nashville
and said that we're now in kindergarten as a group.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But she really champions.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
New authors, authors with a voice, and and Hildebrand was
there among other writers like Chris Whittaker, and it was
just an amazing weekend that you got to sit through
Q and a's and you got to meet all of
the authors, and it was just a really great mix
of people and I can't wait to go back next year.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It sounded like a lot of fun. All your pictures
were so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
She I have to say, Jenna bush Hager was so nice,
so gracious, so funny, self deprecating, and I just loved
hearing from her, and I loved being in Music City.
She had some amazing local musicians performing each night, and
again we got to meet all of the authors. And
(01:45):
I have some exciting news that Chris Whitaker, who wrote
All the Colors of the Dark, will be joining us
for Lisa's book Club in September.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, you have to read that book. We had talked
about it a couple of months ago. You had asked
me what book I would recommend, and I said that
to you, it's really long. It's over six hundred pages, okay,
but it's it's so worth it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay. I did not put that connection together when you
had told me this news and from the previous talk
we had about that book, So okay, I'll write it down.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So and then authors like Anne Patchett were there, who
everyone knows and she has a really successful bookstore in Nashville,
just like Judy Bloom.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Does in Key West. Wait, that's cute, Yeah, very cute.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
She was the first author that came out, and then
the second speaker was Ellen Hildebrand, and Ellen and Jenna
are working on a project together. They couldn't really give
us many details, but it does involve a screen project,
and that's something that Jenna's really been working on. She's
she you know, is producing projects now from some of
(02:54):
the books that she gets behind, and it's been really exciting.
So other authors or Amity Gage, she wrote Hartwood, Christina Henriquez,
she wrote The Great Divide, and Emma Strobe wrote All
Adults Here. So they all spoke. And Tiffany Hattish was
also there. Oh that's cool on stage. Yeah, she came
in after lunch and she wrote a book. And it
(03:17):
was just really cool seeing Tiffany and Jenna together on stage.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It looks like so much fun. All I could think
about was like, this could be Lisa's book Club.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It had definite vibes of Lisa's Book Club, I will
say that. And I was actually very proud when I
walked away from that because we started ours three years
ago and there's a lot of similar elements because all
of my events are in person.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So you know, Jenna picks books.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
She's picked over eighty authors and fifty of them have
been you know, have been New York Times bestsellers because
of her doing that and telling people these are really
good books that you should be reading. So what she's
doing for the community, for the author comunity is amazing.
But also just like giving us great books that we
(04:04):
may not have known about before.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, it's like the influence, right, the way that people
get influenced to read. Yeah, so they might not have
heard of.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And she was a big reader growing up. She told
a story about how she would, you know, sit and
read books. Her mother was a librarian, which I didn't know,
so she really I don't know. She gave a lot
of really nice personal details about her life and how
this starting this book club six years ago has you know,
helped her. And she did say it's a lot of work,
and I was like, oh, I'm glad she says that,
(04:34):
because it is a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But ye, you know, she's really.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Passionate about it, and I'm really passionate about it too,
So I thought that that was really nice.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Was there anything that she did that you saw that
you might have been like, ooh, I'm gonna steal that
or like borrow something of the that nature.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, she did like during the day on Saturday, she
did do a pop up, you know with but I've
done local you know, business pop ups too, so I
did like the musical element of what she did.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So she you know, she.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Featured a singer at the Friday night VIP reception and
then another one on Saturday night. So I've always thought,
since we're a radio station that we should be including
more music, and we've talked about having a comedian at
one of them. So yeah, I think that we could
definitely build out some other elements of the program.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That would be really cool, like for the I mean
for any book club, but especially for like the big
ones that like Big Night Live. That just makes it
even more of a.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Draw, right they are something like during the cocktail re.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Set, right and they already sell out, so now it's
just going to be even more people trying to get in.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, So I think if that was the one element
I would I would definitely add that in.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, And I know in Nashville there's a lot of
like young up and coming artists because a lot of
artists that are new to their career moved to Nashville.
So I'm sure it's very easy.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
To get it made sense right.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So hopefully it's not as hard in Boston.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't think it will be. I mean, we have
the you know, Berkeley College of Music here, true, we
could tell we have so many connections, We have so
many connections. Yeah, that could be really fun. The other
thing that she said that I really related to, because
I had just said it at a party recently, was
that I view authors as my rock stars. And I
(06:17):
was serious, like, they are my Taylor Swifts, like, because
they're just so interesting and I always loved to ask
them like how did you come up with this story?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Like did you start from the beginning? Like how long
did it take you?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So and they love telling their stories, which I really appreciate.
So I love that Jenna and I are like we
had the same feeling about that too. And I will
say that I was standing in the airport in Nashville
on Sunday waiting for my friend, a mom friend of
mine that came with me who's a lover of books too.
We had such a great sort of girl's weekend. So
I was standing there by myself waiting for her to
(06:51):
go through TSA, and Jenna came up to me in
the airport and she knew. She was like, Oh, I
hope you had a great time, and this is so
exciting see you next year. And I was like, I
was like, oh my god, you're talking to me like
I'm a person. You're on the Today Show, but you're
also like the President's daughter, and your grandfather was the
(07:11):
President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You like you're like a big deal, you know, and
you kind of know who I am.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I just was like, that's who she is. Though
she's so gracious and fun and cool.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Did you get to like tell her anything about yourself
or was it just real quick?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, so Friday night at this VIP reception, we went
up to her and well, I have to give a
shout out out to Shannon Pasternak, who is doing some
book club publicity for authors here locally, like she represents
Christy Scott Cashman, who did my book club recently, and
so she suggested that I go to this event in Nashville,
(07:48):
and I'm glad I took her up on it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So she was at the event.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So we walk in because our flight was delayed about
an hour, so we were like at the tail end
of getting to the cocktail reception. And at one point
I said to my friend Nicole, I'm like, should we
even go? Like we missed most of it? And then
we're like, you know what, We'll go. So glad we went.
So Shannon was there and then we walked over and
she actually introduced me to Jenna because she had already
(08:11):
been there and met her and then started saying, well,
Lisa has a book club in Boston. And then then
that was my entry into telling her about what we're
doing with this book club here at Kiss and with
iHeart and going to other cities and expanding our circle
and our influence into other markets with iHeart and their
morning shows and raising money for charities, especially literacy charities,
(08:35):
and the circle just keeps growing. And she was so
excited to hear what we've been doing and when I've
been doing that.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I really I loved that too. It was really genuine.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
This is crazy because you know how they say like
always have an elevator pitch, You never know that literally
came in handy for you.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I think it was. Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But it was honestly, it was like it's dear to
my heart. It was like it was something that I
loved talking about and she could see that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know, it's just really exciting.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Always have that in common.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We do.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, I mean she's at a totally different level, but
you know, but only for now. But yeah, but honestly, like, yeah,
she's she's a pretty cool lady.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's awesome. Did you do anything else in Nashville that
you want to recommend to our listeners?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We went and we got cowboy boots.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Are they the boots that you wore on Monday or
those are different pair?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Those are a different pair.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I got a pair of like off white cowboy boots
that are next level comfortable from like lu Casey I
think is how you pronounce it. It was really close
to We stayed at the w that's where the book
festival was, so it was within walking distance and I'm
so glad that I got them, Like, I'll wear them
for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
They're the most comfortable shoes I own.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, send me a picture. I want to see them.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Maybe I wear on tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So it was really fun and maybe next year you
can come with me.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I know it did look a lot like I wish
that I could have swung it, but well, you never know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You never know, you know what, Maybe we'll build it
into to the budget next year.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
There you go, right, or you'll be speaking at it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Imagine, you never know.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Maybe I can host one of the breakout sessions with
one of the authors, because Ellen Hildebrand was Aaron Tim
who does her podcast with her Tim and his instagram
is Tim Talk Talks Books. He was there and he
he hosted one of the breakout sessions. Perfect, And we're
having Tim on the show very very soon because he
is a part of the Nantucket Book Festival. And Billy Costa,
(10:29):
who is an author, will be there too. So this
is all it's all coming together.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We'll circle Riley. Oh my god. Yeah, Lisa like very
exciting stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I wish people could see your face, like you're overcome
with this, like you just feel the passion when you're
speaking to you about it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So yeah, we have we have some really amazing authors
coming up. Jody Pico, we have, like I said, Chris Whitaker,
we have Patricia Cornwell, we have Ellen Hildebrand with her
new book The Academy, we have doctor Paracone. So these
are all book Club Lisa's book Club authors that will
be with us in the next couple of months.
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