E43: Medical Mysteries
This week Alice and Kim talk plagues, Disney, and what Harry Houdini really thought about spiritualism. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, and Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien, published by HMH. 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. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Kirkus Prize winner: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones “A memoir of coming to terms that’s written with masterful control of both style and material.” Washington Post: “Anonymous author of Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all book” NEW BOOKS Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Díaz The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong MEDICAL MYSTERIES Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston READING NOW KIM: Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz ALICE: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara! CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. LINKS NPR Article