For Real

This week Alice and Kim talk about the guy who got Capone, a chef who got his start selling candy on the subway, and the first people to stand up to the KKK. This episode is sponsored by libro.fm, First Degree from Nimbus Publishing, and The Five from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up My Own Devices by Dessa Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli Kate McKinnon is also going to play Elizabeth Holmes for a Hulu adaptation Kidlit These Days New Books Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country by Simon Winder The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror by Charles Lane Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi Fifty Things That Aren’t