This week, Alice and Kim talk about trans women authors.

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Nonfiction in the News

Netflix Orders White House Mystery Drama ‘The Residence’ From Shondaland, ‘For the People’ Creator [Variety]

New Nonfiction 

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi

I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán

Lady Icarus: Balloonmania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Haynes

Weekly Theme: Books by Trans Women

Fairest by Meredith Talusan

How to Fail as a Pop Star: A Play by Vivek Shraya

To My Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

Reading Now

KIM: From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow

ALICE: The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

CONCLUSION

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