Tucson Festival Of Books
Destination: Tucson, Arizona Event: Tucson Festival of Books, 2011 [See more photos on my Facebook page] The Tucson Festival of Books has grown rapidly in its three years. Organizers say there were 100,000 people there in March 2011, and I think that is true.
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS I’m taking a bit of a break today so I can read FAMOUS AUTHOR’s latest book. That is because I am the volunteer driver for FAMOUS AUTHOR when he comes to the Tucson Festival of Books on March 12 and 13. You can meet him and a couple hundred other authors [...]
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Ending March with a Look at Arizona Wildflowers Ken and I took a little road trip from Tucson to Sells, Arizona on the Tohono O’odham reservation to see the spectacular spring desert wildflower show. And Now the Stats from March MOST POPULAR POSTS
Destination: Sri Lanka Book: Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka, (2010) by Adele Barker
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Rolf Potts and Tom Miller talked about travel writing to a lecture theater packed with Tucsonans last weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books. The secret of success, they said, may be over a volleyball net. When traveler and writer Rolf Potts describes his career arc, it is enough to make other travel writers at [...]
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In honor of this coming weekend’s Tucson Festival of Books, a first annual event featuring 300 authors and heaven knows what all, I went to Tucson’s bookworm heaven, Bookman’s the gigantic local used book store. I took the list of books I have been compiling and found almost none of them–but managed to buy six [...]
