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Australian Journalist Sarah Wilson discusses her new book- THIS ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE. Sarah Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestsellers First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety, which redefined the mental health genre, and I Quit Sugar, along with eleven cookbooks that have been published in fifty-two countries. Previously, she was editor of Cosmopolitan Australia, host of MasterChef Australia and founder of iquitsugar.com, an 8-week program that has seen millions worldwide break their sugar addiction. Sarah lives in Sydney, Australia, is an obsessive hiker and spent eight years traveling the world, carrying one bag.

Debut novelist Mateo Askaripour challenges assumptions about race and opportunity and what it means to see people and value their potential when they don’t follow a typical path up the ladder. Black Buck is a highly anticipated novel released this week. www.realfictionradio.com

Real Fiction 2020 Highlights: Andrew Gifford Alexandra Fuller Andreas Elpidorou Brian Platzer Pico Iyer

Real Fiction RE-AIR. President-elect Biden's Cabinet nomination of Tom Vilsack prompts a question: Why do former Iowa Governors become Secretary of Agriculture (& Ambassador to China)? Mara Hvistendahl's book -"The Scientist and the Spy"explains the connection between food supply and national security.

Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker Guillaume Pitron discusses his international bestselling book -Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies

First in a Three-Part series on Affordable Housing and Homelessness. Fernando Santos discusses her recent article in NYT Magazine - "Without a Net" - addressing the complicated issue of elderly homeless. Santos is a Southwest Borderlands Initiative professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, which she joined in 2017 after a long career in newspapers, including 12 years at The New York Times. Her first book, “The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots,” received the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book. She is currently at work on a memoir. Fernanda is a board member of the Arizona Latino Media Association; a member of the advisory board for Migratory Notes, an immigration newsletter; a creative consultant in the musical “¡Americano!”, based on the life of an Arizona Dreamer; and vice president of The Sauce Foundation, created in memory of her husband to raise money for pancreatic cancer research and journalism scholarships at Cronkite.

SALT THE SNOW centers on one of the first female war correspondents: A woman named Milly Bennett from San Francisco who traveled the world, covering some of 20th Century’s most dramatic events. This sweeping novel portrays the early days of Soviet Communism in the 1930s through the eyes of a young American journalist. This remarkable character might have been lost to history, were it not for Carrie Callaghan probing Bennett’s correspondence and articles. This is a particularly arresting story of journalism as we navigate the so-called ‘Age of Misinformation’. Carrie Callaghan is the author of the historical novels A Light of Her Own (2018) and Salt the Snow (2020). Her short stories have been published in multiple literary journals, and she is a senior editor with the Washington Independent Review of Books. She lives in Maryland with her family.

Professor Andreas Elpidorou discusses his book: PROPELLED: How Boredom, Frustration and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life. Elpidorou challenges us to cultivate our emotional literacy to improve the quality of life. In PROPELLED, readers are invited to consider the upsides to Boredom, Frustration and Anticipation.

Mara Hvistendhal discusses her book: THE SCIENTIST AND THE SPY: A TRUE STORY OF CHINA, THE FBI, AND INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE (Riverhead Books) Mara Hvistendahl was a journalist working in Shanghai when a news story caught her attention. A Chinese scientist was arrested for stealing seeds in an Iowa cornfield. Hvistendahl spent years retracing the steps and analyzing this case of industrial espionage, revealing the intricacies of agricultural theft as a matter of national security.

Acclaimed Brazilian author Daniela Galera's new novel TWENTY AFTER MIDNIGHT was just published in the United States by Penguin Press.

NYT bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt discusses her new novel WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.

Sameer Pandya discusses his debut novel MEMBERS ONLY>

Anne Oman discusses her new book MANGO RAINS. At the age of 79, Oman has published her first novella with Galaxy Galloper Press. Drawing upon her life experience as a Foreign Service Officer in 1960's Cambodia prior to the Vietnam War.

Alex George discusses his new novel "The Paris Hours"

Brian Platzer discusses his new novel - THE BODY POLITIC

Journalist and Travel Writer - Pico Iyer discusses his new book Autumn Light.

Talia Carner discusses her new novel THE THIRD DAUGHTER. (William Morrow/Harper Collins)

New York Times Magazine writer-at-large and journalist Jon Mooallem discusses his new book "THIS IS CHANCE" (Random House) about KENI Radio's response to the 9.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Anchorage Alaska in 1964.

Booker Prize winner, Ireland Fiction Laureate Anne Enright discusses her new novel ACTRESS.

Andrew Gifford author of We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford's Ice Cream Empire. Gifford is founder of Santa Fe Writer's Project.