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Now in Nonfiction
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I love May—the warming temps, the blooming flowers, the grills firing up in backyards, the freshly earned diplomas and caps flying in the air. While my kids aren’t graduating yet, they’re at the age when I’ll blink and suddenly, there they’ll go, out into the world. I pulled together some great nonfiction gifts for grads, though you can definitely start with the first title in this newsletter. Oh, the places they’ll go!
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Rutger Bregman wants you to steer this rocket ship
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Dutch historian Rutger Bregman has a way of grabbing attention. He’s gone viral for confronting audiences about choices he sees as immoral, like eating factory meat or avoiding taxes. In Moral Ambition, he takes on “bullsh-t jobs” and the little matter of what we intend to do with our wild and precious lives. This interview is a great introduction to the book, which is read by Bregman and his narrator and countryman Boris Hiestand. Now that’s what I call double Dutch.
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Mother’s Day is kind of the same every year—cards, brunches, flowers, and a vague unease about the whole thing, at least for a motherless daughter like me. Books about motherhood are another story: always changing, always interesting. Tina Knowles’s Matriarch is the next best thing to Cowboy Carter tickets, while these interviews with Amanda Hess and Melissa Wirt go behind their books on two key issues facing moms today. And I can’t wait for Molly Jong-Fast’s memoir about reckoning with the devastating decline of her mother, feminist icon Erica Jong.
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A wine scandal with a sparkling host
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Beloved Aussie presenter Marc Fennell (Nut Jobs; It Burns) uncorks a doozy of a story in his latest Audible Original. Investigating a cheating scandal in the notoriously difficult master sommelier exam, Fennell—a self-described connoisseur of the menu’s second-cheapest bottle—goes places you won’t guess in this twisty listen. Pair Corked with both your favorite vintage and this interview with the always-charming Fennell.
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Talking about mental health
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’re starting the conversation with stigma- and judgment-free listens that offer honest, compassionate reflections on living with mental illness, trauma, grief, burnout, and other challenges. No matter what storm you’re weathering or where you are in your well-being, treatment, or recovery journey, take heart: You’re never alone.
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