This week Alice and Kim talk about creepy, spooky, and scary nonfiction for the Halloween season. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up Our holiday gift guide episode coming up November 23 — send us your requests at forreal@bookriot.com by November 15! It’s Book Riot’s birthday and there’s special merch. Nonfiction in the News 2021 National Book Awards Finalists Announced [National Book Awards] Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells [CNN] New Nonfiction  I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream by Richard Antoine White Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl On Animals by Susan Orlean Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert  Weekly Theme: Spooky Nonfiction The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal White Magic: Essays by Elissa Washuta Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt Reading Now KIM: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef ALICE: The Phantom Prince by Elizabeth Kendall CONCLUSION ALICE: You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink KIM: RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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E94: Spooky Nonfiction

This week Alice and Kim highlight nonfiction books by Hispanic and Latinx authors. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal [New York Times]  2021 National Book Award Longlists [NPR]  New Nonfiction  America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility by Rajika Bhandari Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson – Tiny Reparations Books No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca Weekly Theme: Hispanic Heritage Month National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2021  Who is Hispanic? [Pew Research Center] Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign [NPR] Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis and Marizol Leyva The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú From Coveralls to Zoot Suits : The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front by Elizabeth Rachel Escobedo Quick Mentions In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Reading Now KIM: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead   ALICE: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E93: Hispanic Heritage Month

This week Kim and Alice interview nonfiction powerhouse Mary Roach about renegade animals, tiger penises, and her amazing use of footnotes. Plus, new nonfiction about Chicago, online shopping, and segregation. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson New Nonfiction Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner Arriving Today: From Factory Floor to Front Door – Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting by Ruby Shamir, Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey Interview with Mary Roach Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Reading Now Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang We Sold Our Souls: A Novel by Grady Hendrix See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E92: The One With Mary Roach

This week Alice and Kim browse the library and find some surprising nonfiction reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Blood, labs and fraud: Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes is about to go on trial [Washington Post] New Nonfiction  Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth   Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai  Weekly Theme: Library Treasure Hunt Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret of Belonging by Alex Wagner Chanel’s Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by Anne De Courcy Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf (1998) Reading Now KIM: The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson ALICE: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobez du Mez CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E91: Library Treasure Hunt

This week Kim and Alice battle through the “Delta Grumpies” to discuss stories they’d like to see adapted for television and film, plus cover new nonfiction from August. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News John Lithgow Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ [Variety] New Nonfiction Belly of the Beast : The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh True Stories to Adapt The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah Broom American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung Reading Now Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E90: True Stories to Adapt

This week Alice and Kim talk Disney reads! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Reportedly Working on a Book About “Leadership and Philanthropy” [Vanity Fair] Molly Shannon Writes Memoir [People] New Nonfiction  The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman  Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Dr. Leana Wen WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy by Michael Knox Beran Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School by Courtney E. Martin Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police by David Correia, Tyler Wall  Weekly Theme: Disney Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park that Changed the World by Richard Snow The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World by Chad Denver Emerson Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons by David A. Bossert, David Gerstein Reading Now KIM: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang ALICE: My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska by Alaska CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E89: Disney Reads

This week Kim and Alice chat about why heists are so much fun to read about, Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, and more upcoming new books. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List [Book Riot] Two Iconic American Writers Join Howard to Create a Center to Help Educate the Next Generation of Black Journalists [Howard University] Tenure Struggle Ends with Hannah-Jones Charting New Course [Associated Press] New Nonfiction Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things by Kelly Williams Brown The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn Westerkamp Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean and the Looming Threat that Imperils It by Helen Scales After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort by Eric Dean Wilson Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century by Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly Heists! Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne (with Zelda Lockhart) Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti Reading Now Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) by Riad Sattouf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E88: Heists!

This week, Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction releases for the rest of 2021. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Favorites of the Year So Far Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard Anticipated Nonfiction Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond by Halimah Marcus Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism by Cammie McGovern Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang Chen Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen  White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Greg Mitman  These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong Reading Now KIM: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry ALICE: Square Haunting by Francesca Wade CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E87: New Nonfiction: Second Half of 2021

This week Kim and Alice do some armchair traveling by discussing books about road trips and share new nonfiction about yoga, cults, and cons. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News 2021 Pulitzer Prizes [Pulitzer.org] Nonfiction Book by Margaret Atwood Coming in 2022 [Kirkus] It’s Everything Change [Matter] Janet Malcolm, elegant and incisive writer for the New Yorker, dies at 86 [The Washington Post] New Nonfiction Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer by Doree Shafrir The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt Road Trips Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake by Kathryn Miles Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Reading Now The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth The Girls by Emma Cline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E86: We're On the Road Again

This week Alice and Kim talk LGBTQ+ reads for Pride Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic [NYT] New Nonfiction  Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys  Quick Mentions! The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson The Kissing Bug : A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams LGBTQ+ Reads The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards Transgender Nonfiction: The Black Trans Prayer Book by J. Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi LGBTQ Nonfiction: The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley Bisexual Nonfiction: wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Gay Memoir/Biography: A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi LGBTQ Studies: Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Johnson Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both by Marizol Leyva and Selenis Leyva Reading Now KIM: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reed Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving of Life by Katherine E. Standefer ALICE: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E85: LGBTQ+ Reads

This week Alice and Kim talk books that explore unsolved historical mysteries and share new nonfiction about Black rebellion, nostalgic essays about travel, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Barack & Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Adapting Heather McGhee’s ‘The Sum of Us’ As Spotify Podcast Series [Deadline] Greta Lee To Star In, Write & EP Series Adaptation Of Cathy Park Hong’s Book ‘Minor Feelings’ With A24 [Yahoo] Film of Michael Lewis’ ‘The Premonition’ in Works [Kirkus] New Nonfiction The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia by Thomas Hager Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America by Gigi Georges America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam Tastes Like War by Grace Cho History’s Mysteries Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” by Kim Todd Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner Reading Now Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth by Kate Greene All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E84: History's Mysteries

This week Alice and Kim talk YA memoirs for your reading ease. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones  Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay Writing a Personal Essay-Themed Book: ‘Ya’ll Know I Won’t Hold Back’ [People] New Nonfiction  You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience edited by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent Bird by Sean Flynn African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself by Chloe Angyal Quick Mentions There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis Yay for YA Memoirs! All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz Reading Now KIM: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling ALICE: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E83: YA Memoirs

This week Alice and Kim talk about an upcoming Mary Roach book, great new memoirs, and books about nature and the land. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach New Nonfiction The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane I Am a Girl From Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro Marie Claire: “Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Nyamayaro on Building Compassion and Gender Equity” The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Joe Grinspan Science, Nature, and the Land The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Reading Now Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E82: Science, Nature, and the Land

This week Alice and Kim talk Islam, Christianity, and Scientology memoirs. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Follow Up April 24: Readathon and Independent Bookstore Day Nonfiction in the News Amanda Seyfried to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu Series ‘The Dropout’ [Variety] Simon & Schuster Acquires Mike Pence’s Autobiography [Publishers Weekly] Why Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book? [New Republic] New Nonfiction  My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet by Chelsea Wald Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo Quick Mentions Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden O’Keefe Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox Religious Memoirs God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi  Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill Reading Now A Promised Land by Barack Obama Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E81: Religious Memoirs

This week Alice and Kim fangirl over Phoebe Robinson and share some favorite stories from American authors of East Asian descent. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News Entertainment Weekly: “Phoebe Robinson’s next book is coming this fall — here are all the details” New Nonfiction North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work by Michael Blanding Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Books by East Asian Writers Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Time: “My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence?” Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee Reading Now A Promised Land by Barack Obama City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E80: Great Books by #AAPI Writers

For Real is a biweekly nonfiction podcast that puts the spotlight on new books and old favorites that tell it like it is, or at least try to.