This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent new memoirs and dive deep into books about monsters. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes and illustrated by Martin O’Neill, and Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin, in hardcover from Black Dog and Leventhal. 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 NPR: "Here Are The Finalists For The 2019 National Book Awards" Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without by Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, Charles Osborne (1967) Nonfiction in the News Sports Illustrated: "She Won Athletes' Hearts. And Robbed Them Blind" Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Forbes: “Decluttering Expert Marie Kondo On Her Forthcoming Workplace and Career Advice Book ‘Joy At Work’” New Books How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper Here Be Monsters The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara  Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting by W. Scott Poole The Science of Monsters: The Truth About Zombies, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures by Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence Reading Now Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Me by Elton John The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices