May the Fourth Be With You
This week Alice and Kim talk about spelling bee horror stories, why you should read about ancient scrolls, and nonfiction to read if you love (or even just sort of like) Star Wars.
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Follow Up
Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
New York Times: “A Young Chef, and a Stunning Comeback”
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
My Favorite Murder podcast
New Books
The Regency Years by Robert Morrison
Beeline by Shalini Shankar
Breaking the Bee documentary
The Da Vinci Legacy by Jean Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown
Magical Realism for Nonbelievers by Anika Fajardo
The Role of the Scroll by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff
May the Fourth Be With You
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor
The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler
The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein
Wishful Drinking and The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels and J.J. Abrams (November 4, 2019)
Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Reading Now
Without Precedent by Joel Richard Paul
The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine
