Tucson Festival of Books

Wild in the West


Learn how the West earned its reputation for breathtaking beauty and rugged individualism, and what it means for the future of its urban and natural landscapes.


Panelists
Amy Gamerman

Amy Gamerman is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal's Mansion section; prior, she was the WSJ's drama critic and a staff writer covering arts and culture. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue and Redbook....

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Richard Grant

Richard Grant is an author, magazine journalist and documentary film writer who comes to the festival with the Arizona-centric "A Race to the Bottom of Crazy."  An earlier book, "God's Middle Finger," was selected as a Southwest Book of the Year by the Pima County Public Library....

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Kyle Paoletta

Kyle Paoletta’s reporting and criticism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, New York Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, n+1, The Believer, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Baffler, High Country News, and Boston....

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Books:
The Crazies
The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
Amy Gamerman
History / Biography
Simon & Schuster
January 2025
ISBN 9781982158163
464 pages
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American Oasis
Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Kyle Paoletta
History / Biography
Random House
January 2025
ISBN 9780553387377
368 pages
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A Race to the Bottom of Crazy
Dispatches from Arizona
Richard Grant
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Simon & Schuster
September 2024
ISBN 9781668011027
320 pages
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