Category: True Story

Hello nonfiction lovers! It feels like it’s been a pretty quiet week in nonfiction-related news. I’ve got three memoir announcements, plus a couple of recommended essays to round out the week. Let’s go!

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First, memoirs by singers! In October, Elton John will release his “first and only autobiography,” but didn’t share many more details in the video announcement. In November, Alicia Keys will release a memoir called More Myself through Oprah Winfrey’s “An Oprah Book” imprint. I think these could both be pretty exciting!

Speaking of memoirs, gymnast Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to speak up about sexual abuse in USA Gymnastics, will be sharing her story. The title, What Is a Girl Worth?, is a reference to a question Denhollander asked during her victim impact statement during her abuser’s sentencing. After the book is published, Denhollander will go on a national media tour.

I enjoyed this essay by Eula Biss in LitHub about her first book, Notes from No Man’s Land. The 2009 essay collection was an exploration of race in America and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. In the essay, she reflects on how a decade has changed the conversations at the center of the book, the way her life has changed, and what she didn’t understand at the time the book was written. It’s an interesting reflection on revisiting your own thinking and how books don’t change along with us.

I also enjoyed this profile of Gretchen Rubin from the Washington Post. I enjoyed her first book, The Happiness Project, but I know she can be a divisive writer, in the sense that her hyper-organized persona and privileged lifestyle don’t always resonate. She’s gone on to write about personality and, in her newest book, organization for calm (a sort of Type A Marie Kondo, I guess). In any case, I think the profile gets at some interesting things about her, and shares some details I found pretty amusing.

And that’s all for the week! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

Hello nonfiction nerds! After the bonanza of new books that came out last week, I almost feel bad writing about five more titles coming out this week… but not really. This week’s selection has some historical true crime, data science, animal research and more. Let’s go!

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The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson – This book is a new account of one of America’s most sensational murder trials. In the book, Robertson “explores the stories Lizzie Borden’s culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom” using newspaper accounts, transcripts, and letters written by Lizzie herself.

Further Reading: If you like the behind-the-scenes stories of how books get made, Publisher’s Weekly has a great piece on the 16 years it took Robertson to get this book published.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez – I love books that make an argument I’ve never really thought about before. In this book, Caroline Criado Perez looks into how the data we collect and use makes men the default, treating women as atypical and, therefore, embedding bias into everything from the workplace to the doctor’s office. I just started this one and it’s so interesting.

Further Reading: Bustle published a great excerpt from the book looking specifically at how “one-size-fits-all” usually means “one-size-fits-men.”

The Lost Gutenberg by Margaret Leslie Davis – A literary history! The Gutenberg Bible, one of the first books published on a printing press, is one of the most widely-sought collectibles in literature. This book traces the history of one copy of the book, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg to its final major collector, Estelle Doheny. This one looks really fun.

Further Reading: Book Riot has a post of 10 things you should know about the Gutenberg Bible, which seems like a good starting point before reading the book.

Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal – Beginning with a viral moment between an aging chimpanzee matriarch and a biologist saying goodbye, this book argues “humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy.” I feel like this one has a high probability of making me cry, but that’s ok.

Further Watching: Frans de Waal has given a couple of TED Talks about primate social behavior.

What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forché – This memoir is the story of “a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life” during visits to El Salvador at the dawn of a civil war.

Further Reading: Forché is a well-regarded poet. You can read her 1978 poem, “The Colonel” thanks to the Poetry Foundation.

Ya’ll, there are just so many good books out there right now. You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

Hello hello, friends and readers, and cheers to another week of interesting nonfiction news! This week I’ve got some awards finalists, news about Michelle Obama, and a bunch of announcements about upcoming titles, from cookbooks to memoirs.

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The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick – one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters—the Creature from the Black Lagoon. For someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre there was little information about Milicent available. Patrick’s contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career had been cut short and she soon after had disappeared from film history. The Lady from the Black Lagoon restores Patrick to her place in film history while calling out a Hollywood culture where little seems to have changed since.

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Before we dive in, a quick apology on my end for a misspelling in Wednesday’s newsletter. The author of The Skeleton Keys is Brian Switek, not what I wrote. Sorry about that!

Queer Eye’s hair guy, Jonathan Van Ness, will be releasing a memoir this fall. Over the Top will start with “his upbringing in a small Midwestern town” and “reveal sides of himself that the public has never seen.” For those counting, that’s the third Queer Eye memoir this year, following Karamo by Karamo Brown and Naturally Tan by Tan France. Chef Antoni Porowski has a cookbook out this fall as well, Antoni in the Kitchen.

In mid-February, the finalists for the LA Times Book Prize were announced. I usually like this prize list a lot, and this year was no exception. The five finalists in current interest – The Line Becomes a River, Bad Blood, The Fifth Risk, Becoming, and The Library Book – are all some of my favorite titles from 2018. Also notable, Book Riot favorite Terry Tempest Williams will be getting a lifetime achievement award. The winners will be announced on April 12 before the start of the LA Times Festival of Books.

Michelle Obama continues to be too good for the rest of us. While in Houston, she met with 20 women of the HTX Book and Brunch book club and visited students at a Houston high school where she handed out copies of her book. She’s also penned a letter to readers over at Goodreads where she talked about her writing process and the wonder of book clubs with friends.

Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, is writing a new cookbook called What To Cook. No news on a date – in the announcement Nosrat said she’s a “painfully slow writer” – but it’s still exciting news!

Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City, revealed the cover of her upcoming book, The Ghosts of Eden Park. The book is about “the Bootleg King, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked Jazz-Age America.” Count me in.

Alice Marie Johnson, a 62-year-old woman freed from prison due to the advocacy of Kim Kardashian-West, is publishing a memoir. Johnson was jailed due to a nonviolent drug offense and, in 1997, was sentenced to life in prison. Last year, Kardashian-West advocated on her behalf and she was released. In the book, Johnson will write about how she got involved in the world of selling drugs, and what happened next. After Life is set to come out May 21.

Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors, is writing a new memoir. Toil & Trouble is all about how Burroughs is a witch, chronicling his “journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless.” Intriguing.

And that’s it’s for this week! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. This week, Alice and I offered some recommendations for International Women’s Day, and celebrated our first podcast-iversary. Happy reading! – Kim

Hello and welcome to the biggest week in new releases so far this year!

There are so many new titles out this week, I had a really hard time narrowing it down to the 12 books I decided to include in this list. Keep reading to find books about bones, Chicago, medicine, organization, immigration, and more.

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The Twice-Born by Aatish Taseer – A young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery by seeking out the Brahmins, a caste devoted to sacred learning in India.

Skeleton Keys by Brian Switek – A scientific and anthropological history of our skeletons.

An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz – The story of one summer in Chicago, about “individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity … of the human heart and soul.”

Real Queer America by Samantha Allen – A transgender reporter takes a cross-country road trip to understand queer communities across America’s heartland.

That Good Night by Sunita Puri – A physician specializing in palliative medicine writes about her attempts to “translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care” for terminally ill patients.

The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott – A book about “free solo” climber Alex Honnold’s record-breaking ascent of El Capitan in 2017 as well as the history of climbing.

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden – “A debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida.”

The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara – The story of one of Disney’s first female animators who helped create the monster in Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin – A guru on happiness and personality looks at techniques to “declutter and organize to make more room for happiness.”

Survival Math by Mitchell Jackson – A story about a young man’s childhood in a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, “blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect.”

She/He/They/Me by Robin Ryle – A creative exploration of how gender “colors every share and shape of our world” and the idea that there are an infinite number of paths we can choose.

The Wrong End of the Table by Ayser Salman – The subtitle kind of says it all, “a mostly comic memoir of a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in.”

Happy Friday and welcome to March, fellow nonfiction readers! I cannot even begin to tell you how glad I am to turn the page to a new month and leave February in the dust.

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Over at Book Riot, I finally got to publish my contribution to Book Riot’s 2019 Read Harder Challenge, a post of my best recommendations for a business book (task 17). The post was a lot of fun to write, and includes several of my favorites including Bad Blood by John Carreyrou and The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissionnette.

Happily, that’s just one of the many great nonfiction posts over at Book Riot, which made me think it’s a perfect time to round up some of my favorites from the last month or so. Let’s go!

First up, a couple of excellent posts about essays:

• 8 Women Essayists You Should Be Reading Right Now
• 21 Great Essay Collections from 2019 to Add to Your TBR

There were also three 50 must-read lists about nonfiction:

• 50 Must-Read Baking Books
• 50 Must-Read YA Nonfiction Books (Plus 11 More!)
• 50 Must-Read Nonfiction Books for Kids

And a bunch of posts about current events, to help make better sense of the world:

• DTF: Books About Contraception, Sex Ed, and Reproductive Justice
• 7 Transgender History Books for LCBTQIA+ History Month and Beyond
• All the Books About Trump’s Presidency… So Far

And finally, some general book lists on creativity, money, habits, and beer:

• 6 of the Best Books on Creativity to Inspire Your Art
• 11 of the Best Budgeting Books to Calm Your Money Woes
• 16 of the Best Books on Emotional Intelligence for the Mind and Body
• 15 of the Best Books on Habits and Their Life-Changing Effects
• Tapping into Beer History with Books and Beer

And that’s it’s for this week! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

Hello hello, nonfiction readers! As I started to put together this week’s new books newsletter, I realized it’s a relatively quiet week for new books in general and new nonfiction in particular. That’s ok though, I’ve still got three great titles to highlight this week… and a ton to try and squeeze in next week. Let’s get going!

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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley – Lucy Knisley is one of my favorite comics writers out there, and I have loved watching her grow up in her series of comic memoirs. Her newest is about pregnancy, from fertility issues to miscarriages, to the challenges of her successful pregnancy and dramatic labor and delivery. I think this one is going to be stellar, I can’t wait to read it.

Further Peeking | Lucy Knisley’s Instagram is great, but if you’re specifically interested in the book check out her posts with the #kidglovescomic hashtag for some great behind the scenes facts from the book.

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution by David Sloan Wilson – David Sloan Wilson is a professor of biology and anthropology who has written several books about how to apply the ideas of evolutionary theory to contemporary human issues. In this book, he looks at how this view “provides a practical tool kit for understanding … the fast-paced changes that are having an impact on our world and ourselves.”

Backlist Reading | I enjoyed one of his previous books, The Neighborhood Project, which applied evolutionary and experimental thinking to issues that come up in local neighborhoods.

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler – Historically, the idea of women warriors has been that they’re the exception, not the rule. But that may not be true! In this book, Pamela Toler shares stories of women who took up arms, why they did it, and what happened when they broke out from traditional roles for women. The list of women she writes about is diverse and interesting, I can’t wait to get this one!

Further Reading | Pamela Toler’s blog – History in the Margins – is a great read. She’s got some fascinating posts about women who bucked the system that I found inspiring.

And that’s it’s for this week! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

Happiest of Fridays, nonfiction readers! The Twin Cities area where I call home is now officially in the middle of the snowiest February on record, with 30.4” on the ground so far (and more in the forecast this weekend 😱). This is my mood until spring.

This Friday’s newsletter is a bit of hodge-podge, with some news about three upcoming nonfiction titles and a roundup of some great nonfiction now out in paperback. Let’s dive in!

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Upcoming Book News

Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, will be writing a second book for Beacon Press. The book, scheduled for 2020 or 2021, doesn’t have a title yet, but “will look at the ways in which white people form alliances with one another, and the need for them to break those alliances in order to support racial equality.”

Katie Couric will be writing a memoir, out in 2021, where she’ll “share details both ‘hilarious’ and ‘humiliating’ as she looks back on her prize-winning, 40-year career.” I honestly can’t decide if I’m looking forward to this one or not.

We’re getting a true crime book from Stieg Larsson! Before he died, Larsson (author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) was investigating the 1986 unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. Larsson had been working with his partner Eva Gabrielsson, on investigating the murder, amassing 20 boxes of research. The Man Who Played with Fire was acquired by Amazon Crossing and will be out in October.

New Books in Paperback

Feel Free by Zadie Smith – A collection of essays that brings together some classic essays and previously unpublished pieces on culture, politics, and life.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara – A true crime memoir about one woman’s search for the Golden State Killer, a predator who committed 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders over a decade in California.

In the Enemy’s House by Howard Blum – The true story of a linguist and codebreaker who helped uncover a top secret Soviet mission to place spies in the United States beginning in 1946.

Sharp by Michelle Dean – The story of 10 women who made contributions to cultural and intellectual history through the 20th century.

Eat the Apple by Matt Young – A memoir about Marine Corps culture written by a man who joined at 18 and served on three deployments to Iraq.

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú – A look at the border between the United States and Mexico, written by a former Border Patrol agent.

One Goal by Amy Bass – The story of a high school soccer team and coach that helped bridge the gap between residents and Somali refugees in a small town in Maine.

What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson – A collection of essays from a celebrated novelist, focusing on modern politics and climate.

And that’s it’s for this week! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

Happy last Wednesday of February, friends and fellow readers! Minnesota continues to be pummeled by snow, but I’m still here and excited about chatting new books.

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Based on the first few months of 2019, I think it’s going to be an awesome year for essay collections. This week there are three interesting ones to mention:

• The Future is Feminist, edited by Mallory Farrugia – This collection by “poets, essayists, activists, actors, and professors” takes an intersectional look at what it means to be a feminist in the past, today and into the future. It looks like it mixes some important historical essays with contemporary work, which is exciting.
• The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman – In this collection by first and second-generation immigrants, pieces explore “what it’s like to be othered in an increasingly divided America” and what it means to try live in the United States while also holding other identities and cultures. The contributor list is excellent too.
• Nobody’s Looking at You by Janet Malcolm – This book pulls together previously uncollected pieces by one of the best narrative nonfiction writers today. The essays cover everything from designer Eileen Fisher to journalist Rachel Maddow to email etiquette. I’m excited to pick this one up.

And now, a couple other new titles out this week that may be worth picking up:

The Art of Dying Well by Katy Butler – As a sort of follow up to her first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door, journalist Katy Butler is back with a practical book about “living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change.” The book includes information about how to age in place, how to choose the best doctor, how to have honest conversations with medical professionals and family, and more.

Backlist Bump: Butler’s first book is one of my favorites. Reading it helped facilitate some difficult conversations in my family, and was just a deeply moving account of the complexities of medicine and aging. Definitely pick up a copy of Knocking on Heaven’s Door.

The Threat by Andrew McCabe – Amidst all of the personnel changes of the Trump administration, the firing of Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, in March 2018 feels like a lifetime ago. In this book, McCabe offers an account of his career – including investigations into Russian organized crime and the Boston Marathon bombing – and a defense of both FBI agents and the institution they work for.

Further Reading/Watching: This one is, unsurprisingly, getting a lot of press due to McCabe’s assessments of Trump and Vladimir Putin, particularly in an interview with 60 Minutes. It’s hard to tell if this means the book is good – at least one review has been positive – but I’m looking for more this week.

And that’s the new books on my radar this week! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. In this week’s episode, we dove into some contemporary black writers for Black History Month. Happy reading! – Kim

Happy Friday, dear nonfiction readers! Between the weather and the news and life in general, it’s really been A WEEK for just about everyone in my immediate circles. But we’re so close to the weekend, let’s get some nonfiction news and just power through. This week we’ve got more adaptations, more fact-checking, and charming Grammy win. Let’s go!

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I feel like we’ve been hearing chatter about an adaptation of Eric Larson’s The Devil in the White City, but we finally got some concrete news this week. The adaptation is coming to Hulu as a series produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio! According to IndieWire, DiCaprio has been involved since rights for the project were picked up in 2010, but this is the most solid news yet.

The plagiarism and fact-checking storm around Jill Abramson’s new book, Merchants of Truth, had another twist late last week. Abramson initially denied the accusation, suggesting on Twitter that those who were critical were just mad about how their organization was portrayed. Shortly after, Abramson issued a statement to the Associated Press admitting some fault. She noted there are some issues with the page numbers in the notes section, and that “some sources ‘should have been cited as quotations in the text.’” More to come, I assume.

If you still want more about Elizabeth Holmes and the scandal around her company, Theranos, Refinery29 has been doing some interesting reporting on the story, including this look at what her ex-boyfriend and former COO, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, is doing now. And, of course, I will never stop recommending Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.

You have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of this Vulture article to get to the good stuff: Comedy Central is developing a show based on Samantha Irby’s 2013 essay collection Meaty. Two of the show’s executive producers, Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein, both come from tv backgrounds and are both authors of their own essay collections, I Might Regret This and You’ll Grown Out of It, respectively.

On Sunday, former President Jimmy Carter won a Grammy Award for his audiobook Faith: A Journey for All. This is his second Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. He previously won in 2016 for his audiobook A Full Life, Reflections at Ninety. The article linked above has some other fun facts about presidential Grammy awards.

And that’s all the news that made it on my radar this week. You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

Hello friends, and happy Galentine’s Day! That really has nothing to do with this newsletter, I’m just excited about plans to eat waffles, drink mimosas, and hang out with my best girlfriends later this evening.

But before that, we’ve got some new books to celebrate! Here are four new nonfiction titles you are going to want get your hot little hands on ASAP.

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Ross Gay, one of today’s most dynamic literary voices, spent a year writing daily essays about things that delighted him. With enthusiasm and thoughtfulness, these essays record the small joys that occurred in one tumultuous year, the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. He finds wonder in the mundane, celebrates beauty in the natural world, and takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities in his life, including living in America as a black man. The Book of Delights is an inspiration, a powerful reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.

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The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison – A collection of Toni Morrison essays! This book gathers “essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.” I don’t feel like I have much to add to the description, just that she’s amazing and I bet this collection will be too.

Further Reading: Morrison’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, one of the pieces included in the book, is always worth a read.

Good Kids, Bad City by Kyle Swenson – An investigative journalist looks at the wrongful conviction and incarceration of three African American men in Cleveland in the 1970s. Their conviction in a robbery and murder resulted in a combined sentence of 106 years and hinged on the “more-than-questionable testimony of a pre-teen.” The book looks at the case specifically as well as “the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment.”

Further Listening: The third season of Serial is all about criminal justice in Ohio. Over the season, host Sarah Koenig looks at a range of cases that take place at the Justice Center Complex in downtown Cleveland to look at how the institutions of justice usually operate. It’s incredible.

Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen – Timed to publish on the first anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, this book “unfolds the story of Parkland through the voices of key participants whose diverse personalities and outlooks comprise every facet of the movement.” Instead of focusing on the shooter, Cullen turns his storytelling to the survivors and how they managed both high school and surviving a tragedy.

Backlist Reading: If you haven’t read Columbine, Cullen’s account of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, go pick it up right now. It’s an incredible piece of journalism I can’t recommend highly enough.

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman – When a young violinist gets a job performing with a small, New York City ensemble, she thinks she has it made. But, the gig turns out to be a sham – instead of playing, the group performs in front of turned-off microphones while a recording of each piece is played from a CD… all at the behest of the group’s organizer, who Hindman calls The Composer. The con part of this story is a trip, but I’ve also enjoyed the story of Hindman’s childhood in rural Appalachia and her experiences with ambition, gender, and poverty. It’s a weird, readable, exciting book.

Further Reading: You can read an excerpt from one of the early chapters of the book on LitHub that gives a pretty good sense of her writing.

That’s all for today. Enjoy some waffles, text your BFF, and we’ll meet back in your inbox on Friday. You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim