For Real

This week, Kim and Alice chat about the British royals they love (and love to hate), graphic memoirs (comics, not dirty stuff), and new books on Christianity, historical hospitals and Los Angeles. Follow Up Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman New Books The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey (April 17 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Damnation Island by Stacy Horn (May 15 from Algonquin) The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist (May 15 from Crown) Not that Bad, edited by Roxane Gay (May 1 from Harper) British Royals Past and Present Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald Penguin Monarchs series Graphic Memoirs Marbles by Ellen Forney Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley A Bintel Brief by Liana Finck Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden Tomboy by Liz Prince Mentioned briefly and recommended -- Maus by Art Spieg

Kim is joined by guest co-host Jeff O'Neal to talk about two of the biggest nonfiction-related news stories of the year, along with books for Mother's Day and Jeff's Busman's MBA. This episode is sponsored by The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska. Follow Up and Nonfiction News A Higher Loyalty sells 600,000 copies in the first week!  The Golden State Killer has been caught!  New Books The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (April 24 from Crown) Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams (April 24 from Henry Holt) Beneath a Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King (April 24 from Riverhead) The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (April 24 from Viking) Weekly Theme: Mother's Day Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton Stuck in the Middle With You by Jennifer Finney Boylan Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin The Busman's MBA Back to Work podcast by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann Getting Things Done by David Allen Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and W

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This week, Kim and Alice chat about the Victorian computer, an obsessive tennis coach, and how long we should hold onto those Beanie Babies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Alice and Kim talking about Jane Austen superfans, snuffbox mussels and the rare "dragon fish," and books to give some context to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida and subsequent student activism. This episode is sponsored by: She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs New Releases Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman (March 6 from FSG Originals) The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (March 6 from Viking) Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet (March 13 from Ecco) The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman (March 6 from William Morrow) Disappointment River by Brian Castner (March 13 from Doubleday) There Are No Dead Here by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (February 27 from Nation Books) Theme of the Week: Spring Has Sprung Wild and Rare by Adam Regn Arvidson The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Current Events Reads: Guns and Student Activism Columbi

This week, Alice and Kim discuss Idaho extremists, the women who made the internet, and how closely you should identify with Lord Byron (among other things). We're sponsored this week by: She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It by Mackenzi Lee Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs   NEW RELEASES Educated by Tara Westover (February 20th, 2018) Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (March 6, 2018) Fisherman's Blues by Anna Badkhen (March 13, 2018) The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann (March 6, 2018)   THEME OF THE WEEK: International Women's Day In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women an

Kim Ukura and Alice Burton introduce For Real and talk favorite types of nonfiction and what they're reading now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.