Real Fiction Radio

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, i...

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 Carri...

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,...

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.

Andrew Gifford- author. WE ALL SCREAM-THE FALL OF THE GIFFORD'S ICE CREAM EMPIRE and Founder of Santa Fe Writer's Project.

Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein discusses his new book - PILLS, POWDER, and SMOKE (Scribe Press) covering the international drug trade. https://www.realfictionradio.com https://antonyloewenstein.com/

Bestselling author Mary Kubica discusses her new novel THE OTHER MRS. (Film adaptation coming soon to Netflix)

Elisabeth Åsbrink discusses MADE IN SWEDEN: How the Swedes are not nearly so egalitarian, tolerant, hospitable, or cozy as they would like to (have you) think.

Shabnam Curtis discusses her memoir My Persian Paradox

Political and Data Scientist Layla Hashemi discusses her research - analyzing Farsi language tweets on the Twitter platform.

Aris Janigian discusses his fifth novel WAITNG FOR SOPHIA

Sion Dayson, author of AS A RIVER (Jaded Ibis Press) and Paula Lazor BEYOND THE BOX: HOW HANDS-ON LEARNING CAN TRANSFORM A CHILD AND REFORM OUR SCHOOLS - MOTHER'S STORY (Mascot Books)

Authors Jon Sealy, Patricia Henley and Mark Powell from Haywire Books discuss launching a new press and finding a publishing niche.

Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his new book "The World Doesn't Require You".