AltWeeklies Wire
Ray of Lightnew
Despite a life wracked by abuse and loss, a Tucson author heals others through his writing.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Ray, Tucson authors
Moving West, Writing Eastnew
The life of a writer in the Southwest of the 1960s and '70s.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Miller |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tom miller, Tucson writers
Life as Adventurenew
Matt Walker posits that all lives can have meaning and purpose.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
12-02-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Glorified Nobodynew
In his entertaining new book, Jeff Guinn makes it clear that he's no fan of Wyatt Earp.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
05-19-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arizona History Museum, Jeff Guinn
The Storytellernew
Jane Eppinga tells tales about everything from an Aztec princess to Arizona's museums.
Tucson Weekly |
Dave Devine |
03-11-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jane Eppinga
Wandering Spiritnew
ASU's Cynthia Hogue is haunted--and inspired--by time spent in New Orleans.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-09-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Philip Caputo Uses the Border as His Inspiration in 'Crossers'new
When writer Philip Caputo first came to Patagonia in 1996, he wasn't looking for the Arizona-Mexico borderlands to become a canvas for his fiction. The borderlands have a way of taking whatever part of you is given over to creativity and setting it on fire. The result, 2 1/2 years in the making, is his latest novel, Crossers.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
01-13-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Connecting Indie-Media Dotsnew
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman hits the road to promote her new book.
Tucson Weekly |
Hank Stephenson |
04-23-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mexico's Just Coffee Raises the Bar for Free Tradenew
The simple idea of Just Coffee was to help farmers in at least one Chiapas village make enough money so that they could stay on their land. Today, that idea is a success story; the community of Salvador Urbina is thriving rather than just surviving, and Just Coffee's concept promises to revolutionize the free-trade movement.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-16-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Death Threats Be Damned, an Undercover Cop Isn't Running Anymorenew
At 47, his house gone from an arsonist's match, his family badly shaken by their 3 a.m. escape, undercover cop Jay Dobyns is watching his back against outlaws sworn to kill him.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W, Banks |
02-05-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Powder' Compiles the Stories of Female Soldiersnew
This collection of short stories and poems, which will be available for purchase beginning on Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day -- was published by Kore Press, a Tucson publication company dedicated to making women's literary voices heard.
Tucson Weekly |
Megan Neighbor |
11-06-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Stella Pope Duarte Fights Femicide with Her Latest Booknew
When Duarte learned about the serial mutilation and murder of more than 400 young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, since 1993, she knew she could not ignore it -- so she began If I Die in Juárez.
Tucson Weekly |
Kate Saavedra |
07-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Deanne Stillman Explains What Happened to the West's Horsesnew
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West provides a detailed history of the horse and our treatment of the animal -- from its evolution on the North American continent to its scant existence today.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
06-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lawrence A. Weinstein Explores the Essence of Grammarnew
Grammar for the Soul points out that simple words can have awesome power.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
05-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Wrote to Recoverynew
Beth Lisick can make you laugh when you least expect it, and take on the world around her is refreshing.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-20-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
