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A fascinating conversation with former US Ambassador Mark Asquino in the KSFR studio with his exciting memoir, Spanish Connections: My Diplomatic Journey from Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea. (Click for more.)

A mysteriously delicious tale set in Venice in the early 18th Century invites you to step aside from your busy, modern life and listen to award-winning author Julia Fine.

Neil King Jr. takes us on an American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. That is the title of his exquisite memoir that took him, and will take you the listener and reader, on a journey from Washington, DC to New York City on paths you have likely never traveled before. Neil walked the 330 miles over 26 days taking literal roads less travelled alongside mighty rivers and delightful fishing creeks, across America’s lost farmlands into quiet villages, acknowledging our famous monuments to battle and blade and skirting suburban mansions and urban thoroughfares. At every turn he meets surprising characters, occasional adversity, frequent joy and moments of transcendence. Beautifully written, a book you will treasure forever and perhaps inspire you to take your own walk. Meet Neil at Collected Works bookstore at 6:00 pm Saturday, May 13. www.neilkingjr.com

Come to the theater tonight for 23 fascinating, honest and deeply moving minutes with Christine Barker, former celebrated dancer on Broadway with A Chorus Line. On stage she was The Third Girl From The Left the title of her intimate memoir. What did it take to make it as a dancer from Santa Fe to Broadway in the 1970’s and how did she summon the grit and guts it took to stay the course ? Keep listening as the author’s dazzling life, and the lives of her extensive Broadway theater family unravels as the AIDS epidemic begins to sink its painful, unrelenting claws into New York City’s most creative and courageous. Among them, one of the first, her very own beloved brother, Laughlin. This is a book I personally could not put down, written by a woman who was told back then that she shouldn’t speak the truth, and who finally, only now, can do so. Third Girl from The Left by Christine Barker. www.christinebarkerwriter.com

Barry Pearce talks about his poignant new book, "The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories," a collection of nine linked stories set in nine Chicago neighborhoods. He'll launch his book tour in Santa Fe with a reading and a conversation with local author Rob Wilder on Saturday, January 31 at 4:30 pm.

This week on Our Santa Fe, Andrew interviews John Pen La Farge, a Santa Fe Writer and Historian.

This week on The Business of art, Nocona interviews longtime mentor, friend, and ceramic artist Jaymes Dudding.

Join Host Dr. Michelle Stizza in a conversation with New Mexico State University’s Diabetes Management and Prevention Program Team(Diabetes MAPP) Cassandra Vanderpool MS, RDN, LD; NMSU’s Kitchen Creations Program Manager, Dr. Lucinda Banegas-Carreon MPH, CHES ; NMSU’s National Diabetes Prevention Program Manager, and Lourdes Olivas, MA ; NMSU’s On the Road to Living Well with Diabetes Program Manager to learn more about food stigmas, cultural traditions, and diabetes.

A poignant interview with local author Shirley Melis on her memoir Banged-Up Heart: Dancing with Love and Loss. How do you cope with and survive losing two beloveds just a few years apart? How do climb out of the despair of grief and risk loving again? Or don’t take that risk and live only a half-life. A wide-ranging interview touching also the importance of advocacy for a loved one with medical needs and somehow taking care of oneself. A tender interview that allows us to glimpse life’s hardest lessons through the eyes and words of someone who has been there twice. www.shirleymelis.com