For Real

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