What is the Truth? (Literary Nonfiction)

Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the best books of literary nonfiction? What IS literary nonfiction? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is Mostly Women Again An interview by Juliet Jacques with McKenzie Wark on her new book Reverse Cowgirl Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello On Immunity: An Inocuation by Eula Biss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Fun Home: A Family Tragicoic by Alison Bechdel. My Journey to Lhasa  by Alexandra David-Neel Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson Annnnd The Sappho Bot of Twitter! YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices