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Cults and Cult-Like Communities

Podcast |: For Real
Publisher |: Book Riot
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Books,; Non-Fiction
Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Books,; Society & Culture
Publication Date |: Aug 20, 2019
Episode Duration |: 00:48:45

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This week Alice and Kim talk about Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, the world’s deadliest predator, and true stories inside cults and places with cult-like thinking. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications and Chase Darkness with Meby Billy Jensen. 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. FOLLOW UP Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Barack Obama’s summer reading list Publisher’s Weekly: Workman to Publish AOC Bio NEW BOOKS Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard CULTS! Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple by Jeff Guinn Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami READING NOW Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptionby Laura Hillenbrand See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, the world’s deadliest predator, and true stories inside cults and places with cult-like thinking.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, publications.com/skin-deep-hb.html">Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications and Chase Darkness with Meby Billy Jensen.

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.

FOLLOW UP

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare

NONFICTION IN THE NEWS

Barack Obama’s summer reading list

Publisher’s Weekly: workman-to-publish-aoc-bio.html">Workman to Publish AOC Bio

NEW BOOKS

Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard

The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle