For Real

For Real is a biweekly nonfiction podcast that puts the spotlight on new books and old favorites that tell it like it is, or at least try to. This week Alice and Kim chat about their current obsessions (Lincoln and fraudsters, respectively), discuss reading for self care, and preview new nonfiction about strangers, assimilation, serial killers, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘Atlas of the Heart’ [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices