Tucson Festival of Books

Coming of Age Challenges


Two authors, two divergent stories. A privileged wild child, who following family tragedy, sought refuge amid brilliant eccentrics and artists of 1970s NYC. The other a rule-follower in a Midwestern evangelical family in the '80s and '90s before finally fleeing the fold.


Panelists
Sarah McCammon

Sarah McCammon is a national political correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion policy and the intersections of politics and religion....

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Guy Trebay

Guy Trebay has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, Artforum, and many other publications....

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Books:
The Exvangelicals
Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
St. Martin's Publishing Group
February 2025
ISBN 9781250870322
tp, 320 pages

Do Something
Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
Guy Trebay
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
June 2024
ISBN 9781524731977
256 pages
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