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Teacher's Pedagogynew
'Here I Am a Writer' will inspire the most jaded educator.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-28-2011 |
Books
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 Rise of Phoenixnew
'Desert Visions' may be the definitive history of Arizona's capital city.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
05-04-2011 |
Nonfiction
Riparian Revival?new
Ken Lamberton shows the oft-maligned Santa Cruz River some much-deserved love.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
04-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ken Lamberton, Santa Cruz River
Frankie MacFarlane is Back in a Gripping, Layered Whodunitnew
Fracture is Tucsonan Susan Cummins Miller's fifth Frankie MacFarlane mystery, and the scientist-turned-author is getting a handle on the genre.
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
04-13-2011 |
Fiction
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
Media Mattersnew
Will eBooks and audio books eventually replace print on paper?
Tucson Weekly |
Jonathan Lowe |
03-09-2011 |
Books
In-Betweennew
Jim Kristofic's biographical essays detail his life as a white kid in the Navajo Nation.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
03-03-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Jim Kristofic, Navajos Wear Nikes
Bear With Itnew
William W. Johnstone's latest Western is like 'Jaws' -- only with fur, claws and wagon trains.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
02-28-2011 |
Fiction
School Is Murdernew
So how does a reviewer who was a public-school teacher review a book by a novelist who was a public-school principal, and whose work is touted by other public-school folks she knows? Carefully? With correct grammar?...
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
08-23-2010 |
Unclassified
Tags: Gerry Hernbrode
'A Volume of Friendship': Two Great American Womennew
The friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway offers lessons that remain relevant.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
04-15-2010 |
Nonfiction
Book Excerpt: 'The Death of Josseline'new
The heartbreaking story of a 14-year old migrant girl--just one story from an amazing new book featuring dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
03-31-2010 |
Books
David Delgado Shorter Beautifully Tells Portions of the Yaqui/Yoeme Talenew
Out of money and needing to get to San Carlos, my brother and I thumbed it from the Obregon City bus station. I wouldn't pick up those scruffy, half-inebriated gringos today, and I probably wouldn't have stopped back then, more than 10 years ago. But it didn't take long to find a ride.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
03-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
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
