This year's Tucson Festival of Books, held at the beginning of March, approached record crowds.
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star It would be stretching a point to suggest the Tucson Festival of Books went off without a hitch this month.The parade is a joyful procession of musicians and walk-around book characters who lead 100-200 children from the bookstore to the festival’s Children and Teens area.
“It was amazing,” Morgan said. “Attendance was great. Our vendors said sales were great. To see the festival back to being its former self, after all we’ve been through the last few years, was huge.” Local news Take our latest Tucson News Quiz! Held March 4-5 at the University of Arizona, this year’s festival felt much like the record-breaking bookapalooza held in 2019. Preliminary numbers suggest it was close:
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Morgan said it may be June before all the numbers are in, so until then she will remember something else from book festival weekend: This year’s True Grit award went to author Becca Andrews, whose Friday night flight to Tucson was canceled. Undismayed, she drove from Nashville to Memphis the next morning and tried again. That flight was delayed. Andrews missed her session scheduled for Saturday but finally – on Sunday – appeared in a panel with Dahlia Lithwick and Joshua Prager. Three hours later, she flew home.
Canyon del Oro High School alum Tom Zoellner, author of “Rim to River,” returned to book-tour the state this last week.
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