Sharing Tucson
…and the 2021 Virtual Tucson Festival of Books
In my biased opinion, Tucson is one of the most interesting cities in the United States. My ancestors settled here in the 1870s, bringing with them so many unwritten stories for which I know in my heart I will be able to read someday.
The University of Arizona hosts the Tucson Festival of Books (TFOB) as an annual event in late technical-winter, which is really like spring in this nearer-to-the-equator, desert climate. I love Tucson. I love books. The festival for me is all holidays and birthdays and flowers and cakes and burritos and parties and people and great stories and great walking spaces all rolled up in one giant gift package that keeps unwrapping itself even in the memories of being present at this gorgeous event in past years.
Last year, the event was virtual. The amazing people who run the show put together a Plan B that was extraordinary…and open to anyone who had internet access and the desire to check in and listen to Crowdcast interviews with some wise, talented, thoughtful, and fun authors. It was my great pleasure to interview Sarah Chayes, author of the profound, jarring, inspiring, molotov-cocktail-to-my-perceptions tome, On Corruption in America and What is at Stake.
So, here is where you may explore the offerings of this marvelous event in 2021: www.tucsonfestivalofbooks.org The list of presenting authors is diverse and I promise there is “something for everyone” here.
I feel like this post is a letter. And so I will sign off:
In friendship, with love,
Mary
