For Real

This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent new memoirs and dive deep into books about monsters. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes and illustrated by Martin O’Neill, and Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin, in hardcover from Black Dog and Leventhal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up NPR: "Here Are The Finalists For The 2019 National Book Awards" Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without by Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, Charles Osborne (1967) Nonfiction in the News Sports Illustrated: "She Won Athletes' Hearts. And Robbed Them Blind" Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Forbes: “Decluttering Expert Marie Kondo On Her Forthcoming Workplace and Career Advice Book ‘Joy At Work’” New Books How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones Unashamed: Musin