This week Alice and Kim talk underdog robots, a school with no tests, and monsters of the Midwest. This is For Real. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Mystery Giveaway, What They Meant for Evil by Rebecca Deng, published by FaithWords and Book Riot’s Recommended. 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. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Ann Shen’s Bad Girls Throughout History is being made into a series. The film version of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy will hit theaters in January 2020! NEW BOOKS Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country by B.J. Hollars The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe Scan Artist : How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Marcia Biederman SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America by Heather Won Tesoriero Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education ed. By Mildred Wigfall Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis READING NOW KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia ALICE: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices