Season 1, Ep 13: Nonfiction November
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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
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