This week Kim and Alice do some armchair traveling by discussing books about road trips and share new nonfiction about yoga, cults, and cons.
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Nonfiction in the News
2021 Pulitzer Prizes [
Pulitzer.org]
Nonfiction Book by Margaret Atwood Coming in 2022 [Kirkus]
It’s Everything Change [Matter]
Janet Malcolm, elegant and incisive writer for the New Yorker, dies at 86 [The Washington Post]
New Nonfiction
Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley
Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer by Doree Shafrir
The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt
Road Trips
Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake by Kathryn Miles
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Reading Now
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
The Girls by Emma Cline
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