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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