This week Kim and Alice interview nonfiction powerhouse Mary Roach about renegade animals, tiger penises, and her amazing use of footnotes. Plus, new nonfiction about Chicago, online shopping, and segregation.
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Follow Up
The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy
Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson
New Nonfiction
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
Arriving Today: From Factory Floor to Front Door – Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims
Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting by Ruby Shamir, Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey
Interview with Mary Roach
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Reading Now
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
We Sold Our Souls: A Novel by Grady Hendrix
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