You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I am your host for the week, Tricia Brown, and this is episode number, wait for it, 502.5.

We've crossed the 500 episodes marker, and by we, I mostly mean Liberty Hardy and the folks who host all the books with her. And also, you already know

that we're past this because you listen to the show and it happened like two weeks ago.

Whatever. That is an astonishing number of episodes and an even more astonishing number

of books. So hats off to everybody involved in that. Actually, I think Liberty did a book Riot

pod episode with Jeff within the last couple of weeks. I haven't listened to it yet, but I remember

it because it does have a top-notch episode title, which I think is Give Me Liberty and Give Me Jeff.

Hats off to whoever named that.

And also, I'm kind of astonished that it hasn't appeared in the Book Riot podcast library before now.

But anyway, again, huge congratulations.

But nobody's going to get to 600 episodes if we don't do episode number 5002.5.

So let's get to it.

I, this month, jumped back into nonfiction with a couple of books by journalists that I pulled out for you today.

Journalist nonfiction often is kind of narrative nonfiction.

It's one of my favorite kinds of

nonfiction to read because since journalists have to write to kind of like be compelling,

these kinds of books tend to be pretty compelling. No offense, obviously, to the historians or

sociologists out there. But these, like I said, some of my favorite books to read. In both of

the cases today, the authors are writing about a specific topic, but there's

also some personal experience woven in.

I think adds something to the story to the book.

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