Ep 18 - Nonfiction: Not Just for Dads! and Caitlin Doughty Interview!

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🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This episode, Brea and Mallory talk about the benefits of reading nonfiction and interview author Caitlin Doughty. To participate in discussion on Instagram and Twitter, use the hashtag #NonfictionLove! Links National Book Award Nonfiction 2017 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-national-book-awards-longlist-nonfiction-2017 Caitlin Doughty http://www.caitlindoughty.com/ https://twitter.com/TheGoodDeath http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/ Books Mentioned - Time Travel: A History by James Gleick - https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307908797 The Witching Hour by Anne Rice - https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345384461 What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton - https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501175565 Stiff by Mary Roach - https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393324822 Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399184765 Imbibe! By David Wondrich https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399532870 The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374531379 The Book by Keith Houston https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393244793 Me by Katharine Hepburn https://www.amazon.com/Me-Stories-Life-Katharine-Hepburn/dp/0345410092 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393351903 The Idiot by Elif Batuman https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594205613 The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781555977368 The Journalist and The Murderer by Janet Malcolm https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679731832 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780684832401 The Legend of Drizzt: Book 1 by R.A. Salvatore https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780786965373

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:07.0	to help you read better.
0:08.4	I'm writer, filmmaker in book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm
0:11.1	Brea Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader.
0:13.3	This episode we're talking about reading non-fiction and interviewing author Caitlin Doherty.
0:18.4	But first...
0:19.4	What are you reading Bria?
0:20.4	Oh, I'm reading a non-fiction book.
0:21.7	Are you so happy?
0:22.6	Bam.
0:23.6	Are you excited?
0:24.6	Hell yeah.
0:25.6	It's called Time Travel, A History by James Gleke.
0:28.1	G-L-E-I-C-K.
0:31.1	G-K.
0:32.1	G-K. G-K. It's a non-fiction book about time travel, which doesn't make any sense because
0:38.4	time travel doesn't exist that we know of. That we know of. But it is about time travel, the history of time travel through various art
0:47.4	forms through it starts with like H.G. Wells talking about it and how he thought
0:51.1	it could exist and sort of how it it manifests itself in pop culture.
0:56.0	So literature and movies and then all the inventions that came up and people were like...
1:01.0	I know why you're reading this.
1:02.0	Yeah. It's been part of a research book for me, but it's
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