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Publisher |: Book Riot

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Books,; Non-Fiction

Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Books,; Society & Culture

For Real is a biweekly nonfiction podcast that puts the spotlight on new books and old favorites that tell it like it is, or at least try to.

People |: Alice Burton (@itsalicetime),; Kim Ukura (@kimthedork)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: Chicago, IL
Premiere Date |: 2018-02-26
Frequency |: Biweekly
Explicit |: No

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128 Available Episodes (128 Total) / Average duration: 00:47:04

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128 Available Episodes (128 Total)Average duration: 00:47:04

Dec 20, 2022

00:52:51

This week Alice and Kim wrap up 125 episodes of the For Real podcast by discussing their favorite reads of 2022 and reflecting on their favorite podcast episodes.

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KIM’S FAVORITES OF 2022

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton

Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot

The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes

In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado

Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller

ALICE’S FAVORITES OF 2022

A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg

Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú

Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet

The Lost City of Z by David Grann

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Trans Mission by Alex Bertie

FAVORITE PODCAST EPISODES

Episode 13: Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the Vote

Episode 23: The Arctic and the Tropics

Episode 34: Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of Books

Episode 50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes

Episode 53: Snake Math!

Episode 67: After the Final Rose

Episode 70: YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults

Episode 91: Library Treasure Hunt

Episode 92: The One With Mary Roach

Episode 96: Fell in a Hole (AKA True Stories Underground)

Episode 100: Episode 100!!!!

Episode 123: Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide

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Dec 06, 2022

00:50:17

This week Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction out in November and December, including memoirs, cold cases, orchid obsession, and more.

Gift Tailored Book Recommendations this holiday season!

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Nonfiction in the News

books-2022.html">New York Times: Best Books of the Year

Washington Post: Best Books of the Year

Reader’s Digest: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award Winners

New Nonfiction

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin

The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock

A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel

The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria Ruelas

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age by Matthew Cobb

Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy by Clarence Lusane

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower

Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley

Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel

The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow

Reading Now

Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

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Nov 22, 2022

00:54:10

This week Alice and Kim make holiday gift guide recommendations.

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For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website https://bookriot.com/listen/nonfiction-holiday-gift-guide/.

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Nov 08, 2022

00:47:15

This week Alice and Kim talk about books by Indigenous authors to recognize Native American Heritage Month. They also speculate about Prince Harry’s memoir and share exciting new nonfiction picks.

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NONFICTION IN THE NEWS

Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? [harry-memoir.html">New York Times]

How Julie Powell and her ‘Julie/Julia’ blog changed food writing [Washington Post]

Keanu Reeves Exits Hulu’s ‘The Devil In The White City’ Limited Series [Deadline]

NEW NONFICTION

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge by Ted Conover

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge

Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats by K. Ullas Karanth

NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Teresa Marie Mailhot

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle Geller

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes

READING NOW

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg

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Oct 25, 2022

00:47:28

This week Alice and Kim talk new fall nonfiction.

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Book Riot’s Reading the Stars Giveaway

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CONCLUSION

You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

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Oct 11, 2022

00:49:53

This week Alice and Kim reflect on visiting Salem, Massachusetts and discuss books about witches and boats.

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Follow Up

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Giveaway: Reading the Stars by Book Riot

New Nonfiction

Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali and Tarajia Morrell

Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell Augustus

Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya

Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown

Witches and Boats

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine G. Breslaw

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer

Reading Now

Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

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Sep 27, 2022

00:48:35

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Nonfiction in the News

Jung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [Graywolf Press]

2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [National Book Foundation]

Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!’ [Entertainment Weekly]

NEW NONFICTION

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane

Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo

WEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

READING NOW

KIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

ALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

CONCLUSION

You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Our amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

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Sep 13, 2022

00:44:12

This week Kim and Alice go down a rabbit hole talking about A League of Their Own and talk nonfiction about women in sports.

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