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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 Co

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 Fir

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-M

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

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 Emp

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: Essay

This week Alice and Kim talk about music nonfiction, including behind-the scenes narratives, memoirs, and guides. 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 Alice read Hidden Valley Road! Kim read Two Truths and a Lie! Kim guested on Get Booked. Nonfiction in the News Kate McKinnon Exits ‘The Dropout’ Hulu Limited Series about Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes [Deadline] New Nonfiction  Follow the Flock : How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones  Already Toast : Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alex McGinnis Music and Musicians News: Paul McCartney’s upcoming memoir [Billboard] More Myself: A Journey by

This week, Kim and Alice revisit a favorite holiday, International Women’s Day, with true stories about women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about medical history, flight attendants, and more. 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 ‘Nomadland’: How to Watch Grances McDormand and Chloé Zhao’s New Film on Hulu for Free [Rolling Stone] Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey Share Their Most ‘Personal’ Stories Yet in New Book Office BFFs [People] New Nonfiction Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Brandy Schillace Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Ju

This week Alice and Kim talk new nonfiction releases by Black authors. 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 From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic [New York Times] Michelle Obama releasing a new edition of her memoir “Becoming” for young readers [CBS News] ‘Sex and the City’ Revival Assembles Writers’ Room, Adds Samantha Irby, Rachna Fruchbom, Keli Goff [Variety] New Nonfiction by Black Authors The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs Surviving the White Gaze : A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll  Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain The African Lookbook : A Visual

This week Alice and Kim share books about some of their favorite epic love stories and gush about some new (and awesome) historical true crime. 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 Here Are the Guest Editors for the Best American Series 2021 [LitHub] Just Don’t Call Her a Ghostwriter [New York Times] New Nonfiction Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap

This week, Alice and Kim recommend easy nonfiction reads to start your year. 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 Shoutout on Twitter from Ibram X. Kendi – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi  and Keisha N. Blain Nonfiction in the News Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price The Doctors Blackwell : How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura  The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resista

This week Alice and Kim preview 21 of their most-anticipated new books from the first half of 2021. Plus, they discuss reading plans for the year and some of the best-reviewed books of 2020. 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 Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020 [LitHub] Most Anticipated Nonfiction of the First Half of 2021 White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by Ta-Nehisi Coates Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Costs of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A Hi

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2020. 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. Follow Up Storygraph Favorite Nonfiction of 2020 Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robery Kolker Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Shit, Actually by Lindy West We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half-Century of Silence by Becky Cooper Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century ed. By Alice Wong What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon Nonfiction We Missed in 2020 World of Wonders: In

This week Alice and Kim share books about familes, plus new nonfiction about mediocre white dudes, Mexican revolutionaries, and more. 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 Obamas’ Higher Ground & ‘Adam Ruins Everything’s Adam Conover Team On Government Comedy Series For Netflix, Based On Michael Lewis’ ‘The Fifth Risk’ [Deadline] The 10 best books of 2020 [Washington Post] The 10 best books of 2020 [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico : Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Edited by Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark and Jennifer Speed Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox Terribl

This week Alice and Kim share nonfiction gift recommendations for the holidays. 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 episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life., The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson, and A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité. Follow Up We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper Nonfiction in the News Carnegie Medals shortlist National Book Award winners New Nonfiction Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds : Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani  I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom Nonfiction Gift Guide Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Threading My Pr

This week Alice and Kim give kudos to nonfiction authors with election victories and talk about good YA nonfiction options to read when you’re exhausted. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life., Henry Holt & Co., and Whatbook. 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 Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride New Nonfiction We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays by Kiese Laym

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. Join hosts Alice and Kim every other Tuesday for news, recommendations, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Alice and Kim talk new releases and Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This episode is sponsored by the podcast Borrowed from the Brooklyn Public Library, The Limerence Imprint of Oni Press, and Nothing Like I Imagined by Mindy Kaling. 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 Bill Bryson ‘to retire from writing’ [The Telegraph] Ava DuVernay Back In Director’s Chair For ‘Caste’; Netflix Adaptation Of Acclaimed Isabel Wilkerson’s Best Seller [Deadline] by Amanda N’Duka Jeffrey Toobin of New Yorker Is Suspended After Zoom Incident [New York Times] by Johnny Diaz and Azi Paybarah New Nonfiction A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks by Sam Maggs What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis Finding Lati

This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent nonfiction featuring women of the Supreme Court. This episode is sponsored by Borrowed, Book Riot’s mystery thriller podcast, Read or Dead, and TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life. 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 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists Ron Charles at the Washington Post: The 2020 National Book Awards finalists are a strikingly fresh group [Washington Post] New Nonfiction What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada White Reconstruction : Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide by Dylan Rodríguez She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh The Ghost Road : Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating by Matthew L.M. Fletc

This week, Kim and Alice dive into books by and about folks in The Bachelor universe. Plus, thoughts on Obama’s upcoming memoir and all sorts of new books! This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life. and The Mason House, available now from Lanternfish Press, and Henry Holt and Company. 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 New York Times: “Obama’s Memoir A Promised Land Coming in November” New Books The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager Clutter: An Untidy History by Jennifer Howard Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and