You won't regret spending a weekend surrounded by stories and storytellers, writes David Fitzsimmons.
My beloved Tucson Festival of Books folks can’t possibly be struggling to wrangle volunteers. Take it from this TFOB veteran, no one could ever have as much fun as a TFOB volunteer. Or as much kettle corn.2. Two days surrounded by 1,687,345,007,456 handheld wireless devices called books. I can smell the pulp. I’m high on ink already.
5. The chance to meet me. Experience unforgettable disappointment! Odds are good you’ll run into me there, pretending to skim literary masterpieces, gorging kettle corn. I heard a guy walking away say to his wife, “Not what I expected. He looks like a Sun City silver alert crossed with a hobbit.” First time I volunteered, I met Mark Twain. I was sent to the train depot to pick him up. I was thrilled. “Mr. Twain! On behalf of the Tucson Festival of Books let me say, ’Welcome to Tucson!’ It’s a real honor to meet you.”
The first book festival hosted by the Spaniards, La Fiesta de los Libros, held at the base of Sentinel Peak in 1774, featured one author, Presidio Comandante Neto Juan Perez Raul Aguirre Romero “Danielito” Portillo, who moderated a panel discussion about his self-published journal “Por el amor de Dios, Sácame de este Infierno” which roughly translates to “For the Love of God Get me Out of this Hellhole.
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