Season 3, Ep. 107: [REBROADCAST] Nonfiction November Reads from Season 1

Nov 27

This week, we rebroadcast our Nonfiction November episode from 2021, season 1!

Highlights:

🎙We gush over the brilliance that is Isabel Wilkerson
🎙A brief rant about the war on drugs
🎙A moment for Wu-Tang and their former badass manager

Books Mentioned:

Alyssa’s List:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga by S. H. Fernando

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America by Curtis Bunn and Michael H. Cottman and Patrice Gaines

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook

Naomi’s List:

Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams

The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir by Sophia Chang

Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom by Tabitha Brown

Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills

Lincoln's Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House by Elizabeth Mitchell

The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America by Tom Zoellner

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer, Doyle McManus

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper

** Intro/outro music by Wataboi from Pixabay **

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