Tucson Festival of Books

Choices and Consequences


Life rarely offers simple answers, and neither do these three novels. In this session, authors Jane Hamilton, Mike Powell and Helen Schulman will explore choices and consequences ... and the grey area where human impulse and responsibility first collide.


Panelists
Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton’s novels have won literary prizes, been made into films, and become international bestsellers. Two of them, "The Book of Ruth" and "A Map of The World," were selections of Oprah’s Book Club....

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Mike Powell

Tucsonan Mike Powell has written essays and features for The New York Times Magazine, The Ringer, The Paris Review, Oxford American, and dozens of other publications on subjects ranging from the joys of dishwashing to the state of Hollywood stuntwork in the era of motion-capture animation....

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Helen Schulman

Helen Schulman is The New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including "Come with Me" and "This Beautiful Life." She is the fiction chair at the Writing Program at The New School and executive director of WriteOnNYC....


Books:
Fools for Love
Stories
Helen Schulman
Fiction / Literature
Random House
July 2025
ISBN 9780593536254
208 pages
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New Paltz, New Paltz
Mike Powell
Fiction / Literature
Double Negative
June 2025
ISBN 9781965726006
126 pages
The author will make this book available for sale at the Indie Author Pavilion during the Festival.

The Phoebe Variations
A Novel
Jane Hamilton
Fiction / Literature
Zibby Publishing
September 2025
ISBN 9798991140287
342 pages
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