For Real

This week Alice and Kim talk about the National Book Award longlist, cozy books, and the best pig there ever was. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date, These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters, and Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin. 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 BOOKS She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey NONFICTION IN THE NEWS National Book Award Longlist New York Times: “It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry” Impeachment: An American History NEW BOOKS Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day C