Looking for your latest literary adventure? Pick up one of these reads by a Southern Arizona author.
Special to the Arizona Daily Star “Awesome Arizona: 200 Amazing Facts about the Grand Canyon State” by Roger Naylor. University of New Mexico Press. 216 pages. $16.95, Kindle $8.99.
It’s a fun read, breezy and humorous, includes a useful index, and is sized to fit neatly into a daypack. Naylor, a prize-winning travel writer, is an entertaining and knowledgeable companion to take along on any Arizona adventure.“Bad Moon Rising: Hemingway, Hollywood, Hoover and Castro” by Steven Bye. Published by the author. 142 pages. Available in Tucson at Antigone Books, Barrio Books and Revolutionary Grounds. $20.
Author Steven Bye offers a mix of historic facts — gathered via Internet research and a memorable weeklong tour of Cuba — with adventures of his own invention. A star-studded cast of characters drop in and out, from Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and Audie Murphy to the Castros and Che Guevara. There’s even a cameo appearance by Lee Harvey Oswald , and their presence indicates the depth, at the time, of the American media’s interest in Cuba — which was just the way Fidel Castro liked it. J.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed | Omny Studio The course of true love never did run smooth. In this sweet and lively story of blossoming romance vs. old country traditions, can love find a way? How could it not? Author and long-time Tucsonan Nick Pintozzi, himself a native Chicagoan, is a retired journalist. He was a copy editor at the Arizona Daily Star for over 20 years.“Fateful Words” by Paige Shelton. Minotaur Books. 296 pages. $20.
Roman Catholic faith practices and grace accorded by the power of love and human connection underlie these stories by retired Tucson attorney Tony Abruzzo. They involve domestic situations and interpersonal relations. A middle-aged man awaiting an X-ray, for example, witnesses acts of complete physical and spiritual communion in an elderly couple It’s not a condition, he realizes, that he could attain with his wife.
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