Terrible and Wonderful Families

This week Alice and Kim share books about familes, plus new nonfiction about mediocre white dudes, Mexican revolutionaries, and more. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News The Obamas’ Higher Ground & ‘Adam Ruins Everything’s Adam Conover Team On Government Comedy Series For Netflix, Based On Michael Lewis’ ‘The Fifth Risk’ [Deadline] The 10 best books of 2020 [Washington Post] The 10 best books of 2020 [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico : Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Edited by Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark and Jennifer Speed Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox Terrible and Wonderful Families Calypso by David Sedaris Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell Reading Now A Promised Land by Barack Obama Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices