Tucson Festival of Books

Cultural Icons


How does Taylor Swift capture our common experiences so well? Who is Lorne Michaels, the genius founder of SNL? What was it like to hang with Andy Warhol and the artistic tribes of 1970s Manhattan? These three authors can answer those questions and more.


Panelists
Susan Morrison

Susan Morrison is the articles editor of The New Yorker. She is the former editor in chief of the New York Observer and an original editor of SPY magazine. She lives in New York City....

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Rob Sheffield

Rob Sheffield is a columnist for Rolling Stone, where he has been writing about music, TV, and pop culture since 1997. His new book "Heartbreak is the National Anthem," looks at Taylor Swift's influence on pop music....

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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:
Lorne
The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison
History / Biography
Random House
February 2025
ISBN 9780812988871
640 pages
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Rob Sheffield
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins Publishers
November 2024
ISBN 9780063351318
224 pages
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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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