For Real

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