E40: A New Books Bonanza!
This week Alice and Kim take a deep dive into eight great new books coming out in early September! This episode is sponsored by our giveaway of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year so far,Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin, and Yale Needs Women from Sourcebooks. 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 The trailer for Just Mercy was released! Nonfiction in the News NBC News: Ex-aide to James Mattis claims Pentagon is holding up his memoir VOX: It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandal New Book Bonanza Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner Perkins She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI by Josh Campbell Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe Reading Now Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede