Podcasts & Audiobooks
Unlikely Friends
Audible Original
Published June 10, 2021
So many people have responded to the book from all over the country. Some people have rejected it out of hand for political reasons. But most people—even those with different views than mine—have given thoughtful listens. You can see for yourself!
Eye opening and sometimes heartbreaking
This production is reminiscent of a well-performed podcastAudioFile Magazine Sept. 2021
Very thoughtful
Regardless of your political leaning or racial experiences – this is an interesting listen. Well worth your time.J. Lombardi, 07-12-21
Perspectives
I enjoy hearing people’s stories from differing perspectives and points of view. This book did just that.Debbie F., 07-10-21
A timely and wonderful story
This is a beautiful story about a remarkable family and our welcoming country. Just the story itself, with its personalities and relationships and joys and sadness, a story about immigration and childhood and sweet adolescence and coming of age in a supportive, caring small American town, is worth listening to. But the power behind this story is really the complications that are difficult, and make us all uncomfortable, that are hard to talk about, hard to accept.In our 2021 political world,this is exactly the story we all need to hear. We need to talk about people who are dear to us, like Mr. Toole, who are generous and thoughtful and respectful and valuable, but who are on the other side of that “political divide”. We need to share these stories and talk to eachother and celebrate the fact that our acceptance of these differences are what makes America great. Thank you to Julie Salamon for this timely reminder and wonderful story.
Anonymous, 07-10-21
The Plot Thickens Season 2:
The Devil’s Candy
TCM Podcast
Beginning June 29, 2021
Great piece about The Devil’s Candy podcast by Times writer Reggie Ugwu
This podcast is thrilling and dramatic, more compelling than any movie you could watch.
This is truly magnificent storytelling.
I have spoken on this show before about my deep, deep love of the book The Devil’s Candy, by Julie Salamon. She was on the set of the 1990 film The Bonfire of the Vanities starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. Everybody thought it was going to be this gigantically successful mega movie but it was a huge flop. Salamon was given so much access — they let her in on meetings about budget, and schedule, and people being mad at each other. It is such an incredibly wonderful, juicy book. And she is now narrating this podcast season, telling this story. You should read the book; you should listen to the podcast.
Linda Holmes, NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour
addictive
Salamon would turn her reporting into the amazing–and amazingly juicy–1991 book The Devil’s Candy. Now, in season 2 of TCM’s podcast The Plot Thickens, the writer retells the whole disastrous story utilizing new interview material, 30 year old audiotapes, and her own a times still-dumbfounded recollections.
Entertainment Weekly Summer pick
Former Wall Street Journal critic (and Sarah Vowell soundalike) Julie Salamon, who covered it all for her 1991 book The Devil’s Candy, pulls out her archives of recorded interviews and narrates this wild journey.
AV Club’s “Best Podcasts This Week”
So good! She’s a natural podcaster too. I love her voice and delivery.
Roman Mars, Creator/Host of @99piorg
Film Twitter red alert: TCM has turned Julie Salamon’s Bonfire of the Vanities book The Devil’s Candy, one of the best accounts of the making of a movie ever, into a ;podcast, and Salamon has unearthed all her interview tapes for it. Part 1 is incredible.
Mark Harris, author of Pictures at a Revolution and Mike Nichols
Slickly produced and irresistibly entertaining
David Hudson, The Criterion Collection July books
What Makes One Long Take Legendary, While Another Gets Forgotten?
Slate’s Culture Gabfest: “Capitalist Pigs” Edition
AJHS At Lunch Series
Interview series hosted by Julie Salamon
A program of the American Jewish Historical Society. Author and journalist Julie Salamon sits down with influential cultural leaders in the Jewish American Community; we’ll hear their thoughts about working in this present moment, current projects, and what they have to say about their Jewish identity. Grab your lunch and tune in for our conversation.