15: #15 Cozy Nonfiction for Fall




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Summary: This episode of For Real is sponsored by The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King and The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman. FOLLOW UP READS The Class by Heather Won Tesario NEW BOOKS The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply by Mark Schapiro  The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre  The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng  She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, Rafeeat Aliyu  WEEKLY THEME: Cozy Nonfiction for Fall House of Stone by Anthony Shadid The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck SEGMENT THREE: Great Subtitles Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal by Jack Kelly The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek READING NOW 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler QUESTIONS/COMMENTS? Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork