Tucson Festival of Books

The Humanizing Power of Humor


Authors Bryan Washington and Mateo Askaripour will discuss the unforgettable characters they introduced in their best-selling books, and why humor was so effective in making them so human.


Panelists
Mateo Askaripour

Mateo Askaripour was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, and his favorite pastimes include bingeing music videos and movie trailers, drinking yerba mate and dancing in his apartment....

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Bryan Washington

Bryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and The New York Times Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award....

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