For Real

This week, Alice and Kim discuss contemporary reads for Black History Month, an accidental con artist, and all new books to watch out for. This episode is sponsored by Audible and , Book Riot’s Swords and Spaceships newsletter. 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 True story podcast, The Dropout from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes New Books The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Parkland by Dave Cullen Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Black History Month II: Contemporary Voices When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Ba