Scandal!

This week, Kim and Alice talk presidential scandals, Victorian affairs, and the inside scoop on the Jell-O dynasty. For Real is sponsored this week by Book Riot Insiders and Flatiron Books, featuring the book Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. See the movie in theaters! New Books My Life As a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture by Guy Branum Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom The Victorian and the Romantic by Nell Stevens Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge by Susan Hand Shetterly Watergate and Scandalous Reads All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin  Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar  Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy by David O. Stewart Memoir/Nonfiction The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee  Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis READING NOW The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis I, Claudius by Robert Graves