This week Alice and Kim talk about witches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, fungus-inspired crime, and what nonfiction to read for Pride Month.
This episode is sponsored by All the Books, The Collected Schizophreniasby Esmé Weijun Wang, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Linda Hirshman.
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Follow Up
KIM: Slow Burn podcast is doing a series on The Queen by Josh Levin (one of the editor’s behind Slow Burn)
New Books
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta
The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs
Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line by Ryan Leigh Dostie
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen
Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles by Julia Bricklin
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
Pride Month
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherrie Moraga
Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E Pitman
Reading Now
KIM: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
ALICE: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
CONCLUSION
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