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Baseball shows the sweet side of life

Local high school takes the road less traveled

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‘Goosebumps’ author talks about new series

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10th ANNIVERSARY

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FESTIVALGOERS BROWSE BOOKS AT the Tucson Festival of Books on March 12, 2016. This year’s festival, the 10th anniversary of the event, will feature over 300 published authors.

After decade, Festival continues to thrive

BY IRELAND STEVENSON @irelandjsteve

Brenda and Bill Viner, the founders of the Tucson Festival of Books, were inspired by the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and wanted to create a large event for the Tucson community that focused on education. In 2008, they turned this inspiration into a reality.

“We started studying the LA Times Festival of Books and doing research as well as going to see it and then we decided that we wanted to hold our book festival on the UA campus,” Brenda Viner said.

“From there, we just started making contacts with publishers and the UA Bookstore to make our dream a reality.”

Planning for the festival is a full-time job. Committees start as early as April before the next year’s festival to start reaching out to authors and publishers to secure the lineup for the following year.

“Our author committee starts looking at the most popular and most well-read authors as well as authors who have new books coming out before the festival as soon as a month after the previous festival is over,” Viner said. “We do a lot of research and contact publishers, because we prefer published authors from a national publisher, and we make the arrangements to get them here to get the highest turn out percentage as we can.”

Over the last 10 years, technology has opened new doors into the world of reading and made access to information regarding the festival much easier.

But, according to Viner, she has seen an unexpected trend over the years.

“We have an app through the Arizona Daily Star that allows people to look

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at the authors and their speaking times as well as other events throughout the festival,” Viner said.

“We also will have C-SPAN here doing a live podcast with various authors throughout the festival,” Viner continued.

We used to have a eBook tent, but over the years, the increase in the popularity of Young Adult novels brought an increase in hard copy book sales with it.”

While this event is founded on the basis of education and a love for literature, books are not the only thing you’ll find at the festival.

“We have food trucks, as well as beer and wine vendors so patrons don’t have to leave the event for any of that,” Viner said. “And we are also featuring some free live entertainment at the festival which I think really adds to the appeal of this event.”

While the event is mainly about encouraging the Tucson community to read, the festival also serves as a nonprofit and all money raised at the festival goes towards literacy programs and agencies that help kids and support education.

“Tucson and Southern Arizona’s high school dropout rate is extremely high and we want to teach kids how to read earlier so they have a better chance of staying in school and succeeding,” Viner said. “A lot of what we do it geared towards children and it is one of our motives with our profits that come out of the festival to support the Tucson and Southern Arizona community’s education system.”

The festival is held on the UA Mall on March 10 and 11. Featured authors will include Jenna Fischer, Amy Tan, R.L. Stein and Veronica Roth.

It is one of our motives with our profits ... to support the Tucson and Southern Arizona community’s education system.”

— BRENDA VINER, TFOB FOUNDER

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Many of the author readings are intimate gatherings, with anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred spectators gathered under a tent to listen to a best-selling novelist discuss the industry with small children, students and adults of all ages.

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VOLUNTEERS

Creating a festival; people behind the scenes The Tucson Festival of Books depends on volunteers to help run the information booth, escort authors, clean up after and more

BY SARAH WORKMAN @DailyWildcat

Volunteers began preparation for the Tucson Festival of Books in early February.

They gathered outside of the University of Arizona bookstore on the mornings of Saturday Feb. 24 and March 3 to train for the event. This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the festival and is expected to have over 2,000 volunteers.

“It’s unbelievably generous of the community to come out in such force to help out for the festival and for literacy,” Melanie Morgan, the Executive Director of the Tucson Festival of Books, said.

Chris Kopach is the Assistant Vice President of Facility Management for the UA. Kopach has been on involved with the festival since its inception in 2009 and said that the festival would not be possible without the help of volunteers.

“We’ve got the best volunteers in the city of Tucson,” Kopach said.

Kopach said that although the transformation process officially started on Saturday, Feb. 24, the set up will not be complete until just prior to the TFOB. “Officially we start today [Feb.24], we start setting up and it takes us two weeks,” Kopach said. “We will start transforming this entire mall with over 300 tents and 14 stages for our entertainment.”

The volunteers can choose between jobs involving either festival weekend, pre-festival or post-festival positions. These duties range from aiding in author transportations, being a festival guide or working in the information booths.

Although volunteers are assigned different primary tasks, they are all expected to help in emergency situations, if they arise.

For example, Kopach said that every year approximately 10-15 kids get lost at the festival and

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COURTESY TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS THE CROWD AT THE Tucson Festival of Books in 2016.

because it brings individuals to campus who may not normally frequent the campus and it is also advantageous for the city of Tucson because the authors staying in all of the cities hotels and motels bring in revenue for the city, according to Byers.

“I just think it’s a really good event for the community and it has grown tremendously in the

According to the Literacy Connect Website for Tucson and Southern Arizona, only 40 percent of third graders in Pima Country were proficient in reading and writing in 2016. As of 2015, 83.5 percent of preschoolers in Pima County were at risk for not being adequately prepared for kindergarten.

Kopach said that this year’s festival will have a few

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that it’s essential for volunteers to redirect them to an information booth so that the proper steps can be made to reunite them with their parents.

Mike Byers is a fourth year volunteer for the festival of books. In the past, Byers volunteered to work with author and talent transportation. He also helped with the set up of the tents and signs for the festival.

Byers said that one thing that makes the Tucson Festival of Books a distinguished and impressive event is the variety of vendors, patrons and sponsors.

“I always like to see the vendors because there’s so many interesting [and] different sponsors of the festival and participants,” Byers said.

The event is beneficial for the UA community

few years that it’s been around,” Byers said. “It’s a big deal for Tucson, I’m happy it’s here.”

According the festival website, the event started in March 2009 and hosted 50,000 regional visitors with the help of 800 volunteers. For the ninth annual festival in 2017, attendance reached 135,000 participants, almost three times as many people as the first festival.

Audrianna Herran is a first-time volunteer for the festival and said that she was motivated to volunteer because she has enjoyed TFOB in previous years and wanted to get more involved. Herran said the festival is positive for the Tucson community because it promotes literacy.

changes from previous years, such as the option for patrons to purchase alcohol. However, the overall intention and purpose of the festival will stay the same.

“It’s about books, it’s about authors and it’s really about what the University of Arizona is about: educating our young and our future leaders, ” Kopach said.

Although the set up for the festival is a timeconsuming process, it’s all for a good cause, according to Kopach.

“We’re running about 16 hours a day but it’s well worth it for the city of Tucson,” Kopach said.

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AUTHOR PROFILE

‘Literary badass’ is humbled by praise

BY MEKAYLA PHAN @dailywildcat

Luis Alberto Urrea lives in two worlds at once, but he writes with no barriers.

The award-winning author of novels like “Devil’s Highway” and “Hummingbird’s Daughter” was born to a Mexican father and American mother in Tijuana, Mexico.

He then moved to California with his family when he was 4 years old.

According to his website bio, Urrea uses his “dual-cultural life experiences” to paint stories that “explore the greater themes of love, loss and triumph.” From this, Urrea is most often recognized as a border writer, but he said he is “more interested in bridges, not borders.”

However, Urrea said that the real border is not one that stands fenced between United States and Mexico at Nogales.

“It seems to me that in this world, we are forgetting how to simply talk to each other,” Urrea said. “The border is truly what separates us from each other.”

Urrea hopes to connect that message through his writing.

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In this way, there is one thing that he always wants to convey in his novels, and that is “Ultimately, we are members of the same family.”

Urrea has been coming back to the Tucson Festival of Books every year for 10 years, since it began.

“By an accident of history, I was in that gang of writers that became a kind of ‘founder’s club,’ and we old-timers make it a tradition to come back every year,” Urrea said. “I lived in Tucson for a bit while I was working on a writing project, met my wife in Tucson, have relatives and dear friends in Tucson. It feels like home and always has.

For me, the Tucson Festival of Books feels like a family reunion.”

To honor his history here in Tucson, Urrea purposefully asked his publisher to officially launch the new release of his novel, “The House of Broken Angels,” at a pre-festival event on March 8.

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It took 10 years for anyone to consider publishing his first book, “Across the Wire.”

Urrea was also stuck in between serving as a relief worker in the extreme poverty parts of Tijuana and odd jobs like a film extra and a columnist-editor-cartoonist for various publications.

Since then, he has gone on to teach at Harvard, received many awards for his novels, such as being a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is now a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

But Urrea still can’t say much about himself.

“All I can hear is Kendrick Lamar telling me to ‘sit down, be humble,’” Urrea said.

However, NPR nicknamed him a “literary badass” and “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart” because of his talents.

“At the end of the day, I am a servant,” Urrera said. “If I can write something that can change the world, I have done my job.”

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Covering the ‘craziest campaign in American history’

BY OLIVIA JONES @i_g_g_why

Katy Tur is an NBC correspondent that covered President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and was even singled out by Trump at his campaign rallies.

Her memoir, “Unbelievable: My FrontRow Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History,” is an inside look at her experience becoming a political reporter and what it took to work on one beat for over a year.

“I wanted to take the reader behind the scenes in a way that’s very hard to do when you’re just doing a game-change sort of book,” Tur said.

“I want to take you behind the scenes, what it was like to be covering the campaigns and what the life of a reporter is.”

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headlines and also talks about what was learned from the campaign and what it means for the present.

“I asked him back in July 2016 if he was really serious about asking Russia to interfere with American politics and hacking the system of a political opponent, let alone an American, and he

when she had a spare moment while covering the campaign and used them to make the manuscript for her book.

“I didn’t start writing the book until after it was over,” Tur said. “I’m not sure even if I wanted to I could; I was doing a live shot about 10 times a day, and I was waking up on the plane, doing nightly news, reporting, writing articles for the website and tweeting all sorts of things and listening to Donald Trump in campaign rallies. There was barely any time for sleep, let alone time to write a book.”

Tur will be in two events, “The Making of Trump” discussion in the Gallagher Theater at 1 p.m. and “Unbelievable: The Craziest Campaign in American History,” an interview by NPR reporter Scott Simon in the Student Union North Ballroom at 4 p.m. Both events will be on Saturday, March 10.

There was barely any time for sleep, let alone time to write a book.”

— KATY TUR, NBC JOURNALIST was like, ‘Yes, I’m very serious,’” Tur said.

At her panel on March 10, she will talk about how her book is an insight to who Trump is, how he operates and how people around him operate.

On the campaign trail, Tur took notes

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KATY TUR IS AN NBC News Correspondent and an anchor on MSNBC Live. Her book details what it was like to cover the 2016 presidential campaign.

SCI-FI AUTHOR

Real problems explored in fictional worlds

BY VICTORIA PEREIRA @vguardie917

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KRISTEN SIMMONS IS THE author of the Article 5 series, “The Glass Arrow” and “Metaltown.”

The Tucson Festival of Books is in town for another year of guest authors, community building and the celebration of writing and reading. Every year brings new authors and new perspectives from all genres. This year, one of those new faces is Kristen Simmons.

Simmons is a novelist who specializes in young adult science fiction and fantasy.

Her work consists of novels that embrace the dystopian aesthetic. From her first published work, the “Article 5” trilogy, Simmons has explored hardship and struggle on an individual and worldwide scale through her fiction.

“The dystopian lens just fit really well for a lot of the things I didn’t really know how to process,” Simmons said. “Everything from seeing people who were struggling or seeing people who were mistreated, to things that have happened politically. Fiction has always been there for me in that respect.”

Besides the “Article 5” trilogy, Simmons has written “The Glass Arrow,” “Metaltown” and “Pacifica,” the last of which will be released on March 6. In each of them,

Simmons explores different social issues through her dystopian worlds.

“Pacifica” begins a couple hundred years into the future in a world where the polar ice caps have melted. The world is at war over the receding shorelines and limited resources as disease, water and trash overrun the planet. In this harsh world, there are pirates that live amongst the manmade trash islands. One of them strikes a deal with a high-class boy looking for his lost friend.

The pirate thinks she has kidnapped the boy, while the boy believes he hired the outlaw, and adventure ensues.

While Simmons has clearly crafted a story addressing climate change, much of the story within this dystopian world is based on family stories and experiences that Simmons has heard over time.

“My great grandmother was in interned during WWII, so a lot of the turmoil between the people is based on stories that I grew up with,” Simmons said. “The riots and all the racial profiling that takes place are all based on her stories to me.”

Simmons has been writing for as long as she can remember and started her first novel — which would eventually become

“Article 5” — when she was in college. The book wasn’t actually published until about 10 years later, during which Simmons helped survivors of abuse and trauma as a mental health therapist.

She has since transitioned to writing fulltime, and her novels reflect her love of the written word.

“I think the truth is people do their best writing when they get to a really vulnerable place,” Simmons said. “I think the best thing writers can do is look at themselves — what hurts them, what excites them, what pain they’ve had in their past, all of those things that make you unique as a writer — and writing from that place of vulnerability is what makes us all strong writers.”

Simmons will be participating in two panels, "Is the Future Dystopian?" on Saturday, March 10 at 2:20 p.m. in the Integrated Learning Center Room 150 and "Science Fiction and Society" on Sunday, Mar 11, at 2:30 p.m. in the Integrated Learning Center Room 130.

“I’m excited to come to this festival, and I’m excited to have ‘Pacifica’ out there for people to read,” Simmons said. “I kind of feel like it’s my family story so it’s going to be cool to get that out there.”

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SPORTS & POLITICS

Terry McDermott’s work hits home This sports author isn’t shy when tackling the romanticism and nostalgia of baseball, comparing it to modern day struggles

BY MAX COHEN @MaxCohen_DW

Baseball has always been a symbol for the simple life. It’s a slow game, easy to follow and there’s always a game on, every day from April to October. You throw the ball, hit the ball and run.

It’s easy.

But the love for baseball isn’t just because of the game.

It’s about the traditions, the history, the dependability. Fathers and sons sit down to catch a game together, or play catch in the backyard between innings.

The length of the season allows for the notion that there’s always tomorrow.

For the longest time, no matter how bad life got, you could look at Cubs fans and say, ‘well, at least I’m not them.’ For nine innings, every day for exactly half the year, everything is as it should be.

That’s the romantic side of baseball. When you don’t have anything else, there’s still the game you love.

Author Terry McDermott covers the romanticism and nostalgia of baseball in his book “Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception.” He has also published in-depth books on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

ANTHONEY RUGGIERO | THE DAILY WILDCAT The combination of baseball AN ARIZONA BASEBALL HELMET rests on the wall of the Hi Corbett Field during a game against California on May 28, 2017. and terror attacks may seem like an incredibly odd pairing. Even using drama. While Piazza was trotting the Uncovering the harsh realities of the what you do). them in the same sentence feels bases, everything was all right in the current state of the world is simply part Investigating, researching and wrong, somehow. It’s almost like the world. of the healing process. writing about the 9/11 attacks can take latter tarnishes the former.

McDermott covers two subjects: the But his works about baseball speak a toll on a person, especially when they But that’s not remotely right. way the world is, and the way the world to how the world should be. This dedicate their life to it. So, naturally, After the attacks, life somehow had should be. includes a love story about a small, they would need a break. to resume with some semblance of His books about 9/11 are of great Pacific Northwest town and its semiTerry McDermott uses baseball as normalcy. That semblance of normalcy importance. He wrote one book pro baseball team and a story about his break from the emotional weight was baseball. entirely about the psyche of the baseball transcending all that plagued of writing on behalf of the 3,000 The Mets played the Braves at Shea hijackers, and another book called it in the mid-1980s. victims of the attacks. Writing about Stadium 10 days after the attacks, in “The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Life should mirror baseball in its baseball is McDermott’s own little what was an attempt for many to forget simplicity, nostalgia, foolish optimism baseball diamond among the cornrows about the tragedy. Catcher Mike Piazza Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh and its almost fundamentalism where, despite the evils of the world, hit a go-ahead home run in the bottom Mohammed” .

Learning about tragedies (bunting is almost always a waste of an everything is all right, even if just for a of the eighth inning, because a big is one of the best ways to prevent them. out, but teams still bunt because that’s little while. baseball game can’t be played without

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AUTHOR PROFILE

Local teacher writes his own path Christopher Patterson’s Shadow’s Fire trilogy is a testament to hard work, perseverance — and finding the right publishing partner

BY MEKAYLA PHAN @DailyWildcat

After each adventure story Christopher Patterson wrote as a kid on his grandmother’s typewriter, his grandmother would insist on titling it “The Next Great American Novel.”

Though he was happy and feels fortunate to have such encouragement from his family, that is not the kind of story he was going for.

“I don’t want to write the next ‘Moby Dick’ or ‘Great Expectations,’” the author of the Shadow’s Fire trilogy said. “What I do want to do is write genre fiction that people who aren’t into genre fiction like.”

The Tucson author first planted his writing roots when he transitioned from a classical guitar performance major to studying literature and creative writing at the University of Arizona.

It was there where he wrote a collection of short stories that would become his first book in the Shadow’s Fire trilogy, using inspirations from Dungeons & Dragons, J.R.R Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin and more to guide him into the fantasy and scifi genres he always loved.

Despite having released two books of the Shadow’s Fire trilogy, with the third installment coming this summer, Patterson said he did things “backwards.”

“I definitely published before I should have,” Patterson admitted.

Originally, Patterson was picked up by a traditional publisher who published his first book of the series the naming of which, “Trial By Fire,” he regretted. Patterson and the publisher had a falling out due to differences in the direction of the series.

Since the changes made in the first book, Patterson has explored the many trial-and-error processes experienced by a self-published indie author.

“Twenty or 30 years ago, if you self-published fiction it was because you weren’t good enough for anyone to pick you up — no publishing company wanted to work with you, no agency wanted to work with you, so you self-published,” Patterson explained.

“The idea was that you had sub-par quality, but that is just not the case anymore.”

Similar to musicians who can make professionalsounding music using their own software, Patterson noticed that authors like Dawn of Wonder’s Jonathan Renshaw or Fifty Shades’ E. L. James could still produce great stories, and find huge popularity selfpublishing.

“The independent artist is becoming more and more legitimate, and I think that’s what is cool about the Tucson Book Festival, [which] is willing to highlight us independent authors,” Patterson said.

Unfortunately, there are still stereotypes surrounding self-publishing in the industry despite the success being enjoyed by indie authors, and Patterson agreed that sometimes having

CHRISTOPHER PATTERSON

CHRISTOPHER PATTERSON SMILES DURING a book signing of Shadow’s Fire: A Chance Beginning.

“self-published,” like in Amazon’s CreateSpace, attached to your book could be the reason why someone does or doesn’t buy a book.

That is why Patterson is glad to be working with the nationally recognized publishing company Wheatmark for the first time.

Wheatmark can publish a writer under their name, or help authors create their own publishing company — which is what they are doing for Patterson — to give them more credibility.

Wheatmark has also tweaked Patterson’s books’ design, and introduced him to a professional editor.

Up until Wheatmark, Patterson had been having his friends edit his work.

Patterson was resistant to seeking professional help in the past, preferring to do it on his own after his first experience, but found it incredibly helpful in improving his stories.

Though it costs between $3,000 and $4,000 for the service, he said it is completely worth it.

Currently, Patterson also works with IngramSpark, a massive book distribution company.

The reason Patterson started writing was the same reason why he was trying to compose songs as a guitar major.

“I loved listening to a good song. I loved playing a good song and always thought it would be cool if

someone listened to my song,” Patterson said.

“Same with stories. When I write a story, I control everything, it’s my story ... I always thought it would be cool for someone to experience my own imagination.”

One of the most interesting things that Patterson observed about book series like Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia is that people who aren’t usually into fantasy can still pick them up and enjoy them.

“You have to battle this stereotype that fantasy and sci-fi are nerdy; the idea that it’s the guy with the tape around his glasses in the corner, playing Dungeons & Dragons, who doesn’t talk with anyone, is the only person who reads them,” Patterson said.

Besides growing as an author, Patterson also coached football and wrestling as well as taught English, government and economics at high schools.

He is currently a health teacher and the head wrestling coach for Cienega High School in the Vail, Arizona.

“Breaking the Flame,” the final book in the Shadow’s Fire trilogy, is planned to join the first two books, “A Chance Beginning” and “Dark Winds,” in the summer of 2018.

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BOOK REVIEW

Controversial author offers border insight COLUMNIST ALEC SCOTT @DailyWildcat

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rancisco Cantú has been shaped by his experiences living in a border state, taking in its natural beauty and coming to terms with the difficult questions it brings with it.

Born and raised in the American Southwest to a Hispanic family, Cantú chronicles his time between 2008 and 2012 as a member of the United States Border Patrol, as well as his insights on what the present of Mexican-American border politics is and what the future will bring, in his newest book.

His new biography “The Line Becomes a River” is an attempt to come to terms with what he experienced in those four years and what occupied his mind the most once he left.

Beautifully written and just in time for the national discourse on immigration to reach new heights, “The Line Becomes a River” is a definite must-read.

Rather than structure the book as an over-political pamphlet in favor of immigration reform, Cantú instead brings his memories to life with a prose that is at times vividly poetic and at others brutally barebones. He lets his experiences speak for themselves, allowing the reader to take both his story and his opinions and understand them together, rather than making it seem as if one exists to satisfy

the other. shouted him down, and rather than spar with Cantú continually returns to the atmosphere and natural them or remove the protesters, Cantú listened calmly, beauty of the American Southwest, capturing in the first saying, “I have plenty of opportunities to speak, I have a chapter his mother’s love of the outdoors and career as a park book in the world.” ranger. The setting is as alive to Cantú’s memory as he is, with Those who accuse Cantú of glorifying tragedy, or emphasis on rock formations, wildlife and the open desert all normalizing something terrible, completely miss what makes shaping his understanding of what life in a border state means. this book so powerful. Cantú’s journey throughout “The Line In a job where the heat from a summer day and a single Becomes a River” is about coming to terms with his actions, wrong turn can kill even the most intrepid trying to understand what he should have done, outdoorsman, elements such as the sun and and what could be done in situations like this weather dominate his mind, bringing the desert and across the country. the world a status of reverence, if not also fear. And Cantú beautifully captures a journey of selfwhile itself a political piece, Cantú does not place discovery and understanding that mirrors a people into camps of opinion, or try to divide in any growing national movement to discover what we way the actors of his memory or of the present. value towards the border, and attempting to silence Instead, every person is real and sympathetic, this book just because it raises difficult questions is with reasons for believing what they do, and only a sign that we are not brave enough to answer informed as much as the next about how to deal them.

FRANCISCO CANTÚ with what Cantú is trying to understand more Cantú will appear twice at Tucson Festival of deeply.

Books, first at the Science City Main Stage on That being said, “The Line Becomes a River” is still deeply Saturday, March 10, 10-11 a.m. and the signing area, Flandrau political. Esquire called it “a must-read for anyone who Bookstore, Science City, following the presentation. Then, he thinks ‘build a wall’ is the answer to anything” and when will be at the Pima County Public Library/Nuestras Raíces/ BBC radio chose it as book of the week, they highlighted the Presentation Stage Sunday, March 11, 1-2 p.m, then at the humanitarian crisis Cantú desperately was calling attention to.

Pima County Public Library/Craft Tent signing area, following Cantú’s discussion of the border, and the actions he either the presentation. participated in or witnessed, has also drawn the ire of some — Alec Scott is a sophomore studying Political Science immigration activists, many of whom see him as profiting off of and German Studies who volunteered for the 2014 Ron those he arrested for illegal immigration.

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COMIC SPOTLIGHT

‘Dreaming in Color’ offers Latinx perspectives

BY VICTOR GARCIA @VicGarcia96

While comic books might not have as many pages as standard books, they still fall in the category of graphic novels.

As students are off on a beach in Cancun or playing water sports in Lake Havasu, the vacant UA campus will be host to the 10th annual Tucson Festival of Books. The festival features “Dreaming in Color: Latinx Comic Universe” a panel scheduled for Saturday, March 10, that delves into the world of latinx comics.

Dr. Frederick Aldama and Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez will discuss the mindbending world of graphic novels and comic books with a Latinx cultural focus.

“I started doing a series of Latinx comics and of course comic book graphic memoirs, graphic novels, etc.,” said Aldama, a graphic novelist and distinguished professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University.

Aldama’s published works include “Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands,” “Your Brain on Latino Comics,” and “The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez,” among others.

Latinx comics are novels portraying Latin American characters with diverse identities.

“Latinx is a more gender-LGBTQinclusive way of identifying Latino or Latinas, it is a way of saying we are more than just men and women,” Aldama said.

Another author in the panel is adventure novelist Jacob Devlin, a UA alumnus with published works like “The Carver” and “The Unseen.”

“When you read, I believe it is a supplement to yourself since you’re absorbing information through the words of the author, who has gone through different experiences than you have,” said Devlin.

According to Devlin, including storytellers that are different, both in ethnic background and gender identity, can make you enlightened in an uncomfortable way or in a welcoming way.

Either way, you learn more about yourself.

“I remember when I was in elementary school I would read the Bailey School Kids books — they would have weird titles like “Witches Don’t Eat Potato Chips,” Devlin said. “As weird as these books can be it really shows how different people can bring

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According to Aldama, the best stories and best characters in comic books can come from diversifying the one telling the story.

Aldama compared how featured Latinx heroes in comics could reach the heights Marvel’s recent film adaptation of Black Panther has.

“Finally, we have an epic heroic story from the comic book universe that is delivering the nuance of community and brings us complex heroes and complex villains,” said Aldama. “I want that for us, for the Latinx audiences. I want a Wakanda [fictional African country in Marvel comics], a Black Panther for us Latinx people.”

According to Aldama, the Latinx community can do the same with characters like Marvel’s White Tiger, a Latino superhero created by a Latino artist.

“One way we can do this is with White Tiger — alter ego: Hector Ayala — this amazing superhero created by George Perez in the ‘70s, who then hands off his mantle to his niece; so here we have gender inclusivity,” Aldama said.

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AUTHOR PROFILE

After more than 25 years, ‘Goosebumps’ still scares in the overall franchise.

“It’s just that [Slappy] got so popular,” Stine said. “Of all the villains and all the monsters I put in the books, he’s Prolific children’s author R.L. the one people really respond to.”

Stine will be at the Tucson Festival Stine further explained how the of Books to talk about the newest demand for a series series in his long-running centered on Slappy was “Goosebumps” franchise, indeed large, stating that he “SlappyWorld.” would likely appear in the “Goosebumps” is a next “Goosebumps” movie. children’s horror franchise As “Goosebumps” has that has been widely read over 200 books, R.L. Stine since its conception in writes many well-loved 1992, and it currently stories on a regular basis, consists of nine series and in addition to readings, spin-offs. “SlappyWorld” signings and other duties. is made up of three books, He explained how his with five more expected writing process ensures he in the future, and is stays on schedule. unique among other “Every day I write 2,000 “Goosebumps” stories in SCHOLASTIC CORPORATION words, and then I stop and its focus on a single villain go on with my day,” he said.

— Slappy the Dummy — “Before I sit down to write the book, I who indirectly narrates the story. already know everything that’s going to R.L. Stine said the new series’ happen, so the hard part’s done.” creation came about due to the sheer Stine expressed admiration for the popularity of the villain, who boasts the Tucson Festival of Books as a returning most appearances of any one character

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guest. “I try to go every year. I think I’ve been maybe five times,” he said.

He also said that he was particularly impressed with the amount of people who attend the festival despite Tucson’s relatively small size.

“I love the crowds. It’s one of the newer book festivals, but now they get 150,000 people to come, and Tucson’s not that big of a town,” he said. “It’s very impressive; people come all the way from Phoenix, and they get 300 authors. It’s wonderful. It’s one of the best book festivals in the country now.”

R.L. Stine is scheduled for two seminars during the festival. The first is a three-author reading called “Mysteries, Mayhem and Monsters.”

The second event is “A Celebration of R.L. Stine and ‘SlappyWorld,’” which consists of a talk and closed signing.

However, Stine said he would simply be having fun.

“I’ll tell a ghost story and tell some funny stories,” he said. “I like to read a lot of the funny letters I get from kids and just have a good time.”

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BASKETBALL

‘Fab Five’ scandals familiar to Arizona fans

BY SAUL BOOKMAN @Saul_Bookman

Acclaimed author and Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom is coming to the Tucson Festival of Books and the timing couldn’t be more appropriate.

In 1993, Albom wrote “Fab Five,” a book that detailed the journey of college basketball’s most iconic team, the 1992 and 1993 Michigan Wolverines.

Mixed with scandal, recruiting and payfor-play details, Albom follows the team. He specifically focuses on the five freshmen who started for the Wolverines: Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson and Jalen Rose. The story ends with the impending investigations as to the circumstances surrounding how each player landed in Ann Arbor.

The familiarity is striking to the University of Arizona. Its men’s basketball team finds itself in a swirl of controversy, all surrounding the current FBI investigation into college basketball. From an alleged $100,000 proposal to pay for the services of current freshman Deandre Ayton, to recruiting schemes aimed to sway commits toward agents following their playing careers, the story of the Fab Five has

many similarities.

In his writing, Albom touches on the aspect of players not reaping the benefits of their own success in college. When he speaks about Chris Webber in an ESPN 30-for-30 documentary, he hits at the core of what the current college basketball scandal is ultimately about.

“He [Webber] knew that he would be the No. 1 pick or pretty darn close, I was with him once when we walked past a store in Ann Arbor and it had his jersey hanging in the window,” Albom said on the documentary.

“I think it was $75 or something like that.

And he had just asked me if I could give him money for gas or pizza or something like that.

I couldn’t, but he asked anyhow. He saw this jersey in the window for $75 with the No. 4 and he said, ‘They’re selling that for $75 and that goes to somebody and I have to borrow money to put gas in my car.’ I remember thinking to myself, ‘He’s not coming back here’.’”

It’s a detailed account of what some athletes go through despite the money they bring into a school, and the perceived hypocrisy behind the punishments that follow.

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Albom’s versatility extends to more than just sports coverage. Three of his best-sellers are “Tuesdays with Morrie,” For One More Day” and “Have a Little Faith,” all of which tap into a different aspect of living, dying and the coping psyche used to deal with such circumstances.

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Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it.

You dance with it.”

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Jenna Fischer: Author of ‘The Actor’s Life, a Survival Guide’ Best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the hit NBC television show ‘The Office,’ Fischer will be at the Tucson Festival of Books to promote her new book, which touches on her life, her big break and advice she has for aspiring actors

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Jenna Fischer’s book, “The Actor’s Life, A Survival Guide,” talks about the fundamentals on how to make it in show business by providing the highs and lows in her career and guidance. The Daily Wildcat spoke with Fischer about the hardships and rejection she faced for years before making her big break, advice for aspiring actors and her overall journey to becoming an established actor.

••• Daily Wildcat: What inspired you to format the book as a guide instead of a typical memoir?

Jenna Fischer: I felt like there were so many practical things that I wanted to share with actors about what I learned while I was struggling and making my way in the early years in Los Angeles.

It felt like a memoir couldn’t properly contain that kind of information. Also, I wasn’t really interested in writing a memoir. I wanted to write a book I wish I had when I arrived in Los Angeles.

I really admire young artists, actors and writers.

Personally, I found that there was more discouragement than encouragement when I was starting out, so I wanted to be a voice of encouragement. That was the major inspiration behind writing the book.

DW: Why did you choose Steve Carell as the person for the foreword?

JF: Steve is my friend and I also know that Steve had a long journey. We talked about it many times while working on “The Office.” In fact, that was a common trait among all of the cast members.

When the show became successful, Steve had been an actor for 20 years already and he worked a long time here and there; we all had. I just knew that he would identify with the message of the book and also because he would be really funny.

DW: In the book, you talk about how if you want to become an actor, you must live an artistic life and interact with others.

What do you believe can help introverts who want to become actors get out of their comfort zones?

JF: I would advise them to join an acting class. A class provides structure and an immediate community which will allow you to connect with other people. Branching out and collaborating with others will help you in the long run.

DW: At the beginning of your career, you auditioned to be a part of an “International Spice Girls group,” which you later found was a scam. Can you explain why it is imperative for young aspiring actors to go on verified websites or use reliable sources to look for open calls?

JF: There has to be a type of common sense that you employ when you are looking for acting work and sometimes, like myself, I would be so blinded by my own ambition that I would ignore clear warning signs or clear red flags.

That is what the story illustrates. It is really best to look for auditions and roles from credited websites, which I list in my book.

Other common sense things include, for example, if you live in a place like Omaha, Nebraska, it is very unlikely that a real top casting agent or talent agent is scouting your city.

Don’t pay that person $300 to audition for them because most likely they don’t really work for that agency that they are trying to represent.

It is important to do investigative work and make sure that all of the factors check out. You shouldn’t have to pay for an audition, ever. Casting directors are paid by the movie or television studios, not paid by the actors.

Keep in mind that sometimes, people prey on newcomers and their lack of knowledge about how the system works so be aware of your surroundings and source of information.

DW: In the book, you talk about how it took you nearly eight years before landing a major role. How much of a game changer was it when you landed the role of Pam Beesly on “The Office?”

JF: It was a huge game changer and the main message of the book is that people often think that successful people were instantly successful or that their talent/skill was instantly recognized and frankly, that is not the case.

That is why my story about meeting Molly Shannon was so significant to me when I first moved to Los Angeles. I met Molly Shannon and I was working as a typist at an event that she was attending. I got to talk to her and she told me that she went through 10 years of struggling before she landed a part on “Saturday Night Live.”

I remember thinking that Molly Shannon is so talented, why would it take her 10 years to get noticed? The other thing I thought of is that even if you are talented, it takes a long time.

Don’t start to believe that you don’t have what it takes just because you’re facing road blocks and frustration. Part of the test of becoming a working actor is being able to be resilient and work through those road blocks in whatever way you can.

As long as you are getting messages and small successes along the way, you need to have a good judgment of your progress. If you are in the same place you were four years ago, then maybe this isn’t the thing for you or maybe you are simply not doing the right thing to get ahead.

If you are getting callbacks, have a talent agent and each year is better than the last, then you are probably on the right track.

DW: Would you say that working in comedies is where you feel most comfortable?

JF: Yes, I really do like working in comedies, but I like working in the kind of comedies that are character-based. Less about the sight gags or one-liners and more character-based comedies like “The Office” or my new show “Splitting up Together.”

For example, my new show, “Splitting up Together,” allows viewers who do not have any prior experience or knowledge

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about divorce to identify with some of the themes of the show and it is also a positive portrayal of divorce and of parents that are co-parenting and concerned about their children’s emotional lives through this new chapter.

I like comedies where there are moments of sadness or moments that don’t revolve around humor all the time. This is my personal taste, and I tend to gravitate towards that.

DW: Why have you decided to showcase your book at the Tucson Festival of Books?

JF: This is the place to go and find great new books. I know there is usually a huge turnout and a variety of authors that go.

It has an excellent reputation and I am excited to be a part of it.

DW: What is the number one lesson you want aspiring actors and actresses to learn from your book?

JF: The number one lesson is that you must create your own work with other artists and create your own momentum. You can’t wait for other people to jump and give you jobs.

A huge part of your learning and readiness regarding being prepared for a professional actor’s life is going to come from practicing your craft with other artists like you. Everybody I know that is an actor has side projects.

Will Ferrell is a great example of this. He is always making little YouTube videos with his friends or creating Funny or Die (the website) and making short films, etc. He is not doing this because he is getting a huge paycheck, he is a creative person who is compelled to create content that he loves.

You need to have that energy in order to be successful in this business. The single biggest piece of advice that I have for people is to tap into that energy and get started now.

Jenna Fischer’s event is on Saturday, March 10 in the UA Bookstore from 1-2 p.m.

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SOFTBALL

Untold stories of women in softball

BY KELLY MCCARTHY @DailyWildcat

Journalist Erica Westly comes to this year’s Tucson Festival of Books as a Tucson native and the author of “Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game,” a book about the notable female figures who turned softball into the sport it is today.

“I lived in Tucson for the whole time I was working on it, and the University of Arizona has a long history with women’s softball, so it’s cool for that aspect,” Westly said.

Westly grew up watching baseball with her dad. She enjoyed watching softball, but she never knew that much about the history of the game

until she began researching for the book.

Once Westly began to learn more about the history of the game, she became engrossed in the forgotten stories of the female athletes who made softball into the game we know today.

“A lot of people had some misconceptions about the sport, thinking that it was developed to be a women’s alternative to baseball, and when I got into learning about the history, I learned that wasn’t the case at all,” Westly said. “Both men and women played the sport, and it sort of became a predominantly woman’s sport by happenstance later on, as the sport evolved throughout the 20th century.”

Last year, “Fastpitch” received a nomination for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing and was one of the five finalists. This honor mattered not just to Westly, but also to women across the sports world.

“It was great to get that recognition, not so much for me personally, but for the women’s stories from the book and to have women’s history represented in that category,” Westly said.

“Fastpitch” offers something new to the sports literature world. It’s a novel solely about women’s contributions to the game of softball and their stories — stories that hadn’t been told before or which have gotten left in the past.

To Westly, it’s important to

inform people of the impact women have made in sports.

It’s not just in recent times; it’s throughout a long history.

“There’s kind of a mindset … because we haven’t preserved these stories of these female athletes that women’s sports didn’t really become strong or get going until Title IX, which isn’t the case at all,” Westly said.

Westly said she hopes her book will help draw attention to gender inequality within the sports world.

Currently, Westly is working as a freelance writer and journalist in Chicago and is working on a new book about the history of swim instruction and how that has related to the history of drownings.

TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

ERICA WESTLY IS THE author of “Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game” (Touchstone), which was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.

HISTORICAL FICTION

20th century social issues drives imagination

BY LEIA LINN @DailyWildcat

Fascinated by the social issues of the time, Cunthia Swanson, a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, transports readers to the 20th century with her work.

“Women’s roles, families, the political climate inform (and even sometimes echo) our current times and of course the details of those times – clothes, cars, music, architecture – are so much fun to write about,” Swanson said.

Swanson has has spent time as a freelance technical and marketing writer, but been writing, specifically in the realm of fiction, her whole life.

“I took a detour to major in Architecture in college because I love design. But after two years I changed majors to English,” Swanson said.

Swanson now identifies as a cross-genre writer whose books are a blend historical fiction, suspense and upmarket fiction.

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“I find this cross-genre work particularly satisfying, because I love reading books in those genres, too,” Swanson said.

She is most famously known for her book “The Bookseller,” which has been nominated for various awards including the Goodreads Choice Award, the MPIBA Reading the West Award, an Indie Next selection and the winner of the 2016 WILLA Award for Historical Fiction.

Her idea behind “The Glass Forest” has been brewing since before she started her first novel, The Bookseller.

“It started with me thinking about what it would be like to occupy the home of a missing person. How could you resist looking for clues around every corner?”

Swanson said. “That was the seed, and the details of the story came together over a lot of years.”

Swanson’s favorite part of being a writer is being able to connect to readers.

“I love meeting with readers at festivals, book clubs, library and bookstore events and anywhere else,” Swanson said. “Hearing that my books have made a difference in a reader’s life makes this journey so rewarding.”

Swanson will be meeting readers at the book festival on the Twisted Plots, Historical Fiction and Sophomore Books panels, as well as signing books in the Mostly Books booth.

The details of those times – clothes, cars, music, architecture – are so much fun to write about.”

— CYNTHIA SWANSON, AUTHOR

TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

CYNTHIA SWANSON IS THE New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of “The Bookseller,” which is soon to be a motion picture starring Julia Roberts.

Her latest book, “The Glass Forest,” was released this month. The book is about the Glasses, a 1940s family who harbours several complicated secrets, according to Swanson.

“It’s a character-driven, psychologically-based mystery … not so much a “whodunit? as a whydunit?,” Swanson said.

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SCIENCE IN ACTION

CARMEN VALENCIA | THE DAILY WILDCAT

AN OVERHEAD VIEW OF the setup for the Tucson Festival of Books on the UA Mall on March 7, 2017. This year, Science City will feature over 80 different exhibitors and exhibitions available to children and adults of all ages.

Science City offers trip through the imagintion

BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @nessamagnifique

Science City is returning to the Tucson Festival of Books to show the public that what our elementary teachers told us is true: We are all scientists.

For nine years, Science City — sponsored by the University of Arizona College of Science and the BIO5 Institute — has brought interactive, public-friendly science to the Tucson community during the Festival of Books.

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senior director of communications for BIO5. “We showcase science in every way you could imagine.”

With over 80 participating groups, virtually all scientific disciplines are covered, from astronomy to neuroscience to entomology.

While many of the groups are UAaffiliated, several groups come from outside the university to participate in the event, such as the Vatican Observatory and 500 Women Scientists.

Science City is organized into six tent neighborhoods: Science in Art, Science of Everyday Life, Science of Food,

“The really wonderful thing about Science City is the personal interactions between the public and scientists/researchers,” said Maria Schuchardt, tent manager for Science of Tomorrow. “Most scientists at Science City have been doing outreach for a long time and have ways of communicating concepts to the novice and expert. All questions are welcomed.”

These tents allow visitors to see how science is present in so many aspects of our lives, from the food we eat to the art we enjoy, and not just as an abstract

[Science City is] a celebration of all of the different science- and STEM-related, exciting things going on at the U of A.

Science City also features the Science Cafe, where UA researchers give presentations and answer audience questions, and the Science Stage, which features various authors, panels and informative shows.

Topics this year include the recently returned de Kooning painting and the science of dessert.

This year, special guests include former X Games champion John Parker, who will present a special called “BMX: Physics in Motion,” and former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin.

New this year is the Science City passport. In celebration of the Tucson Festival of Books’ 10th anniversary, visitors are encouraged to pick up a passport and explore 10 special places around Science City.

By filling out the passport, visitors can earn a prize.

The passport should give visitors a chance to explore a good variety of all the activities Science City has to offer.

“Honestly … every year it’s just really neat to see it come together,” Romero said. “We are really proud of this event, and we love that the community comes and has fun and leaves excited about things that are going on here at UofA.”

 LISA ROMERO, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, BIO5 “[Science City is] a celebration of all of the different science- and STEMrelated, exciting things going on at the U of A and allowing the public of all ages … to come on down to campus,” said Lisa Romero, Science City executive committee co-chair and

Science of Natural World, Science of Tomorrow and Science of You. Each neighborhood specializes in a unique aspect of science and features hands-on activities, live demonstrations and knowledgeable volunteers ready to answer people’s questions.

concept in a classroom or laboratory.

“Most of the time, people are not aware of the impact that science has in our lives, so this tent is about how, in reality, we live science every day,” said Daniela Cabrera, tent manager for Science of Everyday Life.

In addition to the neighborhoods,

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BORDERLANDS

Professor returns to El Paso roots in new book

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Oscar Martínez, a regents professor of history at the University of Arizona, will be spending part of his last semester at the university presenting his new book at this year’s 10th annual Tucson Festival of Books.

Martínez, who will be retiring this semester, has worked at the UA for 30 years.

“Those years have been a great experience, at a great university, with great students and in a wonderful city,” Martínez said.

Martínez plans to return to El Paso and his family roots. These family roots drawing him back to El Paso also inspired his new book, which is a history of the border town of Ciudad Juárez, situated across the Rio Grande River from El Paso in Mexico.

Over its history, Ciudad Juárez has been a centerpiece in Mexican history and a hallmark of the U.S.-Mexico borderland.

The city was the first Spanish settlement on the Rio Grande and served as the de facto Mexican capital during the 1860s French invasion. It hosted the seeds of the 1910 Mexican revolution and the opposition movement that, in 2000, unseated the

ruling party of 70 years.

It gained fame as a liquor producer during prohibition, and many today remember it as the most dangerous city in the world circa 2010, due in large part to the dominance of drug cartels in the borderlands.

The key feature of Martínez’s history of the city is its relationship with the U.S. “It is the U.S. economy that is the most responsible for shaping the destiny of Ciudad Juárez,” Martínez said.

Currently, 60 percent of the economy is dependent on foreign-controlled manufacturing plants.

Martínez hopes his book will inspire individuals to get more interested in what is going on in the borderlands, particularly on the Mexican side.

“The borderlands part of Mexico is very important to the U.S. What goes on in Mexico affects the U.S. a great deal, and what goes on in the U.S. affects UA PRESS Mexico, especially the borderlands,” Martínez said.

Martínez will be speaking on the panel “Stories of Resistance” in the UA Library’s Special Collections on March 10 at 2:30 p.m.

He will share the “stories of the strength, resilience and persistence” discovered during his interviews with locals and archival research that lead to his new book, which is available for sale at the festival.

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FAMILY HISTORY

30 years of research comes together

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Wright-Euell, would embark on a great migration from Louisiana to Northern Arizona along with her husband and children.

Tani D. Sanchez, associate professor “As a child, my of Africana Studies at the grandmother would tell University of Arizona, stories of the Civil War will be a featured author and the experiences of her at this year’s Tucson grandparents,” Sanchez said.

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“It’s a treasure trove, that you can go back and hear their voice, and understand how it applies to you and contemporary culture,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez said she also wants readers to apply this understanding to today’s society and all the controversy surrounding race in the United States.

“I want readers to understand the black perspective,” she said. “A lot of people see divisiveness and hatred and ask why black people are so dissatisfied.

They say, ‘why Black Lives Matter, it’s All Lives Matter.’ After reading this book, you will not have those questions.”

Sanchez will speak on a panel during the Tucson Festival of Books at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 10 at UA Library Special Collections. The discussion will look at the struggle of marginalized populations to reclaim their stories.

At 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, she will also present on her own research, family history and the forgotten contributions made by people of color who shaped the Old Pueblo.

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TFOB EXPERIENCE FROM PAGE 5

From fungi and insect exhibits to the expanses of history and the universe, at the Museum of Natural History and Flandrau Planetarium, the entire scope of time and space is available for exploration at the festival.

And if museums and planetariums aren’t quite your thing, BMX riders will also be demonstrating that physics is much more than colliding particles in a lab, while a volcano eruption will blow some minds, along with the simulated magma.

This chance to get hands-on experience with real science is a great opportunity for learners of all ages, and an amazing way to show those who think science is boring how wrong they really are.

Also for those on the path to learning is the expansive kids’ section at the festival. Character meetings, story readings, music performances and many other activities are the perfect way to get little ones into the reading spirit for years to come.

Throughout the festival, performance acts like the Manhattan Dolls, Tucson Improv Movement and the Saguaro Strutters will be singing, acting and dancing across stages at various points on the UA Mall, proving once again the festival is much more than just books.

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MASCOT SPOTLIGHT

Book festival covered with coyote prints Mascot identity key part of celebration as event selects 10th southwestern critter in the form of a coyote

BY BREAGH WATSON @breaghwatson

The Tucson Festival of Books has a unique Southwestern identity that gives it charm and personality, in part from the annually changing mascot. Each chosen animal is connected to Arizona and calls the desert home.

Debuting in 2009 with approximately 50,000 attendees, the TFOB attendance base has grown to 135,000 people in 2017.

The festival has been dedicated to promoting literacy in the community since its inconception in 2009. The proceeds from the last 10 years of the festival have provided over $1,650,000 to community organizations that support literacy and reading, such as the Reading Seed and Literacy Connects, according to its website.

Past mascots include the hummingbird, the bobcat and the jack rabbit. The 2018 mascot is the coyote.

According to Brenda Viner, co-founder of the festival, the mascot is chosen each year by the Arizona Daily Star.

“We love that the mascot changes every year and that it is composed of actual letters. It also represents Tucson so well because it is an animal that makes its home in Tucson,” Viner said.

Graphic designer Chiara Bautista has done all the posters for the last decade, from the first Gila monster to this year’s coyote. Her images of the chosen critters are comprised of letters, resonating with the theme of the book festival.

Debbie Kornmiller, a senior editor at DEBBIE KORNMILLER , the Arizona Daily Star, knows how ARIZONA DAILY STAR EDITOR the mascot has a powerful impact on the festival.

The third mascot, a tarantula, even kept some people from attending. However, usually the mascot is a way to bring the festival to life.

“The festival is where words and imagination come to life. That was the whole point of the graphic — to take the words and letters and imagine them as something real. It’s fun and whimsical,” Kornmiller said.

One of the mascot’s major influences on the festival is the merchandising. Every year, t-shirts and posters are sold depicting the image of the mascot and in many ways, the mascot becomes a face for the festival.

The mascot does not have a complicated selection process, but it is intentionally chosen to be representative of the location where the festival occurs.

Darrell Durham, director of marketing for the Arizona Daily Star, said the changing mascot goes back to the roots of the festival.

“The thinking was that whenever possible, we wanted to keep and emphasize that Southwest identity. We aren’t the {Los Angeles Times Festival of Books}, we’re not the Miami Book Fair — we’re the Tucson Festival of Books,” Durham said.

“These creatures hammered that home to give us our unique identity.”

Bautista’s popular and lively illustrations are significant to the festival’s general Southwestern identity and individual literary image. Ten-year anniversary posters with all 10 mascots will be available at the festival this year.

“The setting for The Festival of Books is special, it’s not a big city, it has its own flavor, its own characters and these creatures were designed to bring that out,” Durham said.

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The Festival is where words and imagination come to life. That was the whole point of the graphic.”

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EVENT IMPACT

Festival brings family to UA restaurants

BY MELISSA VASQUEZ @DailyWildcat

The Tucson Festival of Books attracts many to the University of Arizona campus, where it takes place, who otherwise wouldn’t be visiting. A love of the written word has brought visitors to campus in mass since its inception in 2009.

The people that can be seen roaming the UA during the book festival are not the usual student faces present during the semester.

They’re older people and families that want to check out the festivities.

Neysha Aguilar, the communications and marketing manager for the Arizona Student Unions, said that during the Tucson Festival of Books there is an increase in people who stop by the Union, but that it’s not something that is focused on.

“There is definitely an increase… but it’s not something that we’re capitalizing on in regards to increasing sales, just because we see it as us hosting and we want to make sure that everyone is happy,” Aguilar said.

A trend that has occurred is more people that are not from the Tucson community attend as the years go on, which causes the Student Union to anticipate the high amount

of traffic the event will bring. They are able to plan ahead by staffing up the Union to adjust.

“I’m 100 percent sure every single year we see a big increase because it’s one of the biggest festival of books in the nation, especially of visitors that are from completely outside of Tucson and outside of Arizona and we got the community that are already here,” Aguilar said. “We see a lot of those people that travel to Tucson, snowbirds as well, lots of families, lots of little kids.”

Even though the Festival of Books takes place on the UA Mall, that doesn’t stop visitors from checking out Main Gate Square.

Lauren Raziele, a manager at Scented Leaf tea house, found that business doesn’t necessarily increase since it’s always steadily busy, but there’s different people that come in.

“We don’t really see much of a difference, of course, we get a lot more families coming in,” she said. “But we’re always filled up with students regardless.”

Miranda Rico, a barista of four years at Espresso Art Cafe, has seen a rise of families and older couples during the Festival of Books weekend over “the college crowd.”

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JESSICA MUISEKEWILKISON SERVES up a “Neopolitan,” one of many specialty tea concoctions at Scented Leaf. The popular tea house sees an increase in the family crowd during Festival of Books.

hookah, which the cafe is popular for.

“Anytime there’s a local event in Tucson, like the Street Fair or the Festival of Books or anything like that, that may not necessarily be university associated, we definitely see an influx of the older family crowd,” Rico

said. “It definitely helps even out because we do very much cater towards the college side of things but when we see these events it definitely brings in a different crowd and it’s really refreshing to see that change during those times.”

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BASEBALL

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME Scott Simon recounts his love of Chicago sports and elicits introspective reflection on why we love sports like we do

BY CORY KENNEDY @CoryKennedy_DW

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__hat hat makes a fan so close to a team? There’s really no right or wrong answer to that question.

Whether it be the city, the food, players or the ballpark itself, something keeps fans returning to the team they love through thick and thin.

For Scott Simon, author of six books including “My Cubs: A Love Story,” the answer as to why he loves his team so much is his connection to the city where he was born and raised.

“I know in my case, my feelings as a sports fan are absolutely tied up in my feelings for my city, Chicago,” Simon said.

Simon, who will be in Tucson for the Festival of Books, is much more than an author. He’s a journalist, hosts a weekly show for NPR, has won a Peabody and Emmy award and appeared on ESPN. Not to mention, he worked for PBS, NBC and BBC World News. But under all of those accolades and titles, Simon is a Chicago sports fan above all else.

If you ask Simon if he prefers to watch basketball or baseball, he will tell you it’s baseball; his connection with baseball runs far beyond winning and losing. Simon developed his love for the Cubs long before their 2016 World Series win.

He remembers skipping class in high school to go to “a garden in the middle of a teeming city” that was Wrigley Field.

“As long as your grades were pretty good, it was considered perfectly acceptable for you to miss a day of high school to go to the game. Now that wasn’t true if your grades weren’t so good, but you could come in and say, ‘Well you know, a group of us went to Wrigley Field,’ and the teacher would kind of smile,” Simon said.

Simon laughed at the idea of how empty Cubs games tended to be as kid. In his high school days, the games at Wrigley Field weren’t well attended, so that took out the worry of not having a decent seat at the game. For Simon and his neighborhood, being a Cubs fan was a way of life rather than a decision.

“That’s what it was like to be from the north side

of Chicago. You know, the ballpark was right in your neighborhood. When the windows of our school were open in the spring and in the fall, you could hear the cheers from Wrigley field; you could hear the home runs,” Simon said.

Those types of memories are ones that can’t be broken by a losing season. For people who are truly fans, it’s the little things that keep people wanting more. For example, one tradition Simon remembers about the Cubs is when they would hang a large “W” or “L” outside of the ballpark. The “W” would notify fans of a Cubs win, and the “L” of course would mean a loss for the team. He recalled riding by Wrigley Field after school and talking with people leaving the day game.

“Most of us lived in apartments and didn’t have backyards, so Wrigley Field, in fact, was our idea of a backyard,” Simon said.

Another reason sports teams bring people so close is that sports are more than just sports; it’s not just about the game.

“It’s the surroundings, the memories. It’s being able to point out ‘I remember this, I remember that,’ you know, and you can obviously do that at Wrigley Field, which goes back so many years. Eating food that you wouldn’t eat under any other circumstance is absolutely part of it,” Simon said.

Simon also touched on his go-to meal when he’s at a Cubs game.

“You have to have a Chicago Dog … It’s Vienna Kosher; it has celery salt, which a lot of people forget. It has mustard, never ketchup — you don’t put ketchup classically on a Chicago Dog — and then onions and then the neongreen relish,” Simon said.

Simon talked about his favorite moment as a Cubs fan, when he saw the phrase ‘World Series Champions Chicago Cubs ‘in 2016.

“It was feeling like an event you never really would have thought to happen had occurred,” Simon said. “It made you, at least for a few moments, think, ‘Oh my God, SCOTT SIMON what other marvelous and amazing things are possible in human life if the Cubs can win the World Series?’”

Finally, one of the things that brings us close to the sports we love are the individual players within the game.

Whether you pretend to be Kobe Bryant hitting the gamewinning three or Tiger Woods sinking a birdie put to win the Masters, there’s always a player connection to the team you love.

“I was always Ferguson Jenkins,” said Simon as he recalled playing pick-up baseball and throwing backto-back no-hitters when he was 12. Simon was able to eventually interview Jenkins, the former Cubs pitcher, going from a young boy admiring his favorite player to a journalist interviewing his idol.

The bottom line is: Whether you love the overly dry pretzels served at concessions or the memories your team’s stadium holds, there’s no way to pinpoint what makes fans so crazy. Maybe there is no method behind the madness and that’s what makes sports so great.

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BOOK REVIEW

‘Truth about Alicia’ shows human struggles where she murdered her husband.

He uncuffed her hands when she wanted to pray to the Virgin. I knew his kindness, and I could see his friendship (and love!) for Alicia.

TONI MARCHEVA This story reads like Matiella knows @DailyWildcat the characters. She probably does, at least figuratively. She grew up in “both think a lot of people my age Nogaleses,” where the story takes spent most of their reading time place. growing up with big-name, youngIn an interview with Meg Tuite, adult fiction series, like Harry Potter, when asked about advice for aspiring Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Eragon writers, she responded, “see those and Uglies. people walking by your house every When I picked up Ana Consuelo day? Each one of them has a story. You Matiella’s book “The Truth about could write those stories.”

Alicia,” I found a gem of a completely She writes about the kind of people different kind than I was used to. I we see every day, and the struggles recommend this book of short stories that we know. We feel sadness that to anyone wanting to step away from Robert’s love for Alicia does not mainstream reading, or anyone work in the opposite direction. We interested in genuine human stories. hurt when we hear Alicia talk about The masterpiece of this book is how none of her family listened to the title story, which I will focus on her, and instead called her crazy. We here. “The Truth about Alicia” is a understand uncertain futures and grief roughly 10-page story about for broken friends. In so few a woman named Alicia who words, Matiella explains so just murdered her husband, many truths about life. told from the perspective Before you grab the book of Robert, a Nogales police right now, I’ll warn you officer who has a lot of about a few minor problems. sympathy for Alicia, mostly First, some sections feel deriving from his past unpolished. Certain experiences with her. sentences feel clunky, some What makes this story actions feel rushed and special, in my opinion, is some parts (like Robert’s the third person narrator. ANA CONSUELO MATIELLA thoughts about the She seems to have little movie “Gaslight”) feel knowledge of what the characters unnatural. These don’t diminish the are thinking, but full knowledge of power of what Matiella writes, however. what they do and would have done.

Second, for people who read a lot Through her telling of the story, ‘simple’ prose (like Hemingway or we can learn about the characters’ Orwell, and those resembling them) personalities and feelings in the way the way Matiella writes might not be that we figure out people in daily life: as fresh for you as it was for me. It’s by seeing them act, hearing them written in a way that my UA English speak and hearing others speak professors are teaching me how to about them. write, so it’s not necessarily unique.

For example, I felt so much respect, Yet its style is much better than many sadness and worry for Robert by the of the best-sellers you might find on end of the story that I wanted to hug shelves today. him, even though he probably doesn’t If you can handle that, I highly exist. Authors generally can’t evoke recommend experiencing the pleasure this response from readers in an entire of the book for yourself. novel, much less a couple pages.

If you’re really fascinated, you can I built up my “relationship” with meet the author, too, at the Tucson Robert only by seeing what he did Festival of Books. She’ll be speaking in the story. He sat with Alicia at at the Pima County Public Library basketball games in high school when presentation stage from 2:30-3:30 on she didn’t have a date. He danced Sunday, March 11. with her at a friend’s wedding. He — Toni Marcheva is a sophomore who’s placed his hand on Alicia’s back as probably exploring the festival right now. she vomited after leaving the house

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PHOTOGRAPHY & POETRY

A picture, plus a thousand words

BY PASCAL ALBRIGHT @pascalloves

The Tucson Festival of Books hosts authors from different genres and showcases their style in many ways. Writing, however, is not the only way one can tell a story.

Photography is another art form that will be presented at the festival.

Dan Streck displays his art in the book “Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials,” a collaboration between photography and poetry.

The project was started by Sarah Cortez, a poet and editor of the book, and Streck. It started after they looked at roadside memorial photos he had taken.

“It was a memorial that was set up

on the side of the road, and that, to me, started to tell a story,” Streck said.

“I think the impact of those photos just kind of stuck with her.”

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Thomas, Jack Bedell and Loueva Smith agreed.

Cortez and Streck gathered 60 images and divided them among the poets.

I think our hope is that applying the art of poetry to those kinds of photos opens up many other doors.”

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photographs of the memorials and marry them with poetry.

Cortez contacted other poets and asked if they would be interested in contributing to the project. Larry

“Each poet was given 15 photographs and asked to work with them and to apply their art to those photos,” Streck said.

It was Cortez’s vision to combine

the two forms of poetry and photography and find a “creative way to work,” according to Streck.

The roadside memorials were “impactful and compelling” to Streck, and the stories told were “so moving and created a impact that comes from simply looking at the photos.”

Streck comes to the Tucson Festival of Books with the hope of talking about collaboration and the mixture of two art forms to create a single outcome.

“I think our hope is that applying the art of poetry to those kinds of photos opens up many other doors in terms of the story that people will hear in their minds when they look at the images,” Streck said.

Streck and Cortez will speak at the Student Union Memorial Center in the Kiva room at 2:30 p.m. on March 10 during the festival.

TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS DAN STRECK’S PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY has ranged from motorsports to roadside memorials, and he has photographed extensively across southern Africa.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Authors seek prize in annual writing competition

BY SHANNON SNEATH @shan_anaginssss

Every year at the Tucson Festival of Books, a writing competition is held so authors can compete for the title of “best writer,” and to possibly have a chance for their own writing to be showcased at the festival.

The winners of this year’s Tucson Festival of Book’s writing competition were revealed on Jan. 30. For each genre — poetry, nonfiction and fiction — there was a first, second and third place winner.

Winners received $1000, $500 and $250 respectively, as well as a scholarship to the Master Writing Workshop which is held in the two days after the festival, March 12 and 13.

The workshop is a chance for aspiring authors to get advice from five established authors who conduct small group sessions, provide feedback to writers and offer advice, according to the Tucson Festival of Books website.

Sarah Wallman, the first-place winner in the fiction category, wrote a book called “Birth Stories.” Wallman said her 4,000 to 5,000-word story was written in only three or four days.

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THE WRITING COMPETITION INCLUDES writers from poetry, non-fiction and fiction genres. The winners this year are Whitney Kerutis, Saloma Miller Furlong and Sarah Harris Wallman, respectively.

“It’s stuff I’ve been thinking about for a long time, so when it’s ready to be written it’s just ready to come out,” Wallman said.

One of the fiction judges for the competition, Kevin Canty, chose “Birth Stories” because the story is “sharply observed and very well-written,” Canty said. “But what drew me to this story was

its unusual narration. This felt almost like a first-person-plural, a story in which the real protagonist was a group of women and not a single consciousness.”

Whitney Kerutis won first place in the genre of poetry. She is currently a graduate student and teacher at the University of Colorado.

Kerutis began writing poetry at the age of 9, and now uses those poems to show her students elements of what make a bad poem.

“We can look at it and correct it, but it’s a nice humble beginning I suppose,” Kerutis said.

Kerutis has been working on her story, “The Auctioneer’s Daughter and other poems,” for about six months. “[The poems in the book] are concerned with this idea of what is the body that is behind the language,” Kerutis said. “It’s a lot of the poet speaking directly with the reader.”

Emily Van Kley won second place in the poetry section for her work “Houseboat and other poems.”

Van Kley said that it usually takes her months or years for her writings.

Asked what “Houseboat and other poems” is based upon, Van Kley said, “Many of my poems are memoir-based and explore rural upper Michigan where I grew up, though lately I have been working a lot with themes around sexuality and gender, death, depression and technology.”

The other top 50 finalists in the competition receive an invitation to the workshop, which costs $300 without the fee waived.

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WRITING COURSE

Participate in research and receive up to $200

Hurdling writer’s block class offered at festival

BY BAILY ALLEN @DailyWildcat

Writing can sometimes be a difficult and daunting task for those who undertake the process, amateur and professional alike. When “writers block” takes over the pen, a helping hand is a godsend.

The Writers Studio Tucson offers a unique perspective on writing in a formal classroom, giving feedback and instruction to those who want to learn and grow.

The studio was originally founded in New York by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz in 1987. Since then, it has branched out into an online platform, as well as several other ground locations.

In Tucson, workshops and classes are offered throughout the year.

Options are available for all types of writers in all different stages of life. Classes begin in the spring and continue through the summer for eight weeks at a time.

“The Writers Studio Tucson gives those writers in the Tucson community the ability to connect with others, sharing and improving their writing together,” said Reneé Bibby, director of The Writers Studio Tucson.

These classes focus on the art of poetry and creative writing, as well as a more technical standpoint to writers skills.

A lot of the effectiveness in teaching is due to what can be described as

the voice method. Students have the ability to try on writing voices like coats, eventually finding the one that fits best.

The studio offers helpful critique, pushing those who accept it to a more advanced level of writing. This can result in award-winning work from their students.

Those who take the classes are guaranteed to find an attentive, caring and helpful staff to bring out the best in their work, giving them something to be proud of.

Bibby tells people that The Writers Studio “is open to all writers of all categories from beginners to those working on their MFAs.” “Those attending are usually readers, which means a lot of them are writers. This gives us a chance to connect and share our program with them in person,” Bibby said.

The studio will be at the Tucson Festival of Books in Booth #117. They will be offering information about their classes, as well as answering questions about their process and how they can help those with the desire to learn and transform into better writers.

“The Tucson [Festival of Books] is the only festival that we attend each year, and that’s because it’s the best,” Bibby said.

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SPORTS HISTORY

Modern football invented at Carlisle

BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @NessaMagnifique

They invented the trick play, revolutionized the forward pass and pioneered strategy over strength. Historians call them “the team that invented football.” So why don’t more people talk about the Carlisle Indian School football team?

Author Steve Sheinkin, or as the librarians call him, the “not boring history guy,” digs into the story and legacy of this hidden gem of a team in his new book “Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team.”

“I think it’s the best underdog sports story I’ve ever seen or heard of,” Sheinkin said. “What these guys were up against is just almost unimaginable, on and off the field … They just reinvented the game.”

College football in the late 1800s was dominated by “The Big Four” elite teams: Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

And then came Carlisle.

When they began in 1893, the team was met with skepticism and outright racism. Sports writers assumed the team would give up easily, drawing on a stereotype that Native Americans were quick quitters.

None of this stopped Carlisle.

“That’s where the name Undefeated [comes from],” Sheinkin said. “It means the obvious thing about trying to

be undefeated. But [also] … just how undefeated they were in spirit.”

In 1899, Pop Warner was hired as a new coach, and thus began something of a golden age for Carlisle. In October of that year, Carlisle won its first victory over a Big Four team, Penn.

In 1903, they debuted the “hidden ball trick” in a game against Harvard. The crowd had never seen anything quite so strategically innovative.

By 1906, innovation was exactly what football needed.

President Theodore Roosevelt, a longtime defender of football, assembled what would one day become the NCAA. These men rewrote the rules of the game in hopes of making it less violent and more similar to the modern game. Most significantly, they legalized the forward pass.

In October 1907, Carlisle fullback Frank Hauser threw a 40-yard spiral in the first forward pass in a high-profile football game. Fans had never seen anything like it. The future of football was upon them.

Carlisle played what came to be known as “whirlwind football,” full of power rushes, outside speed runs and long forward passes.

No game was more significant to Carlisle than its 1912 game against West Point Military Academy. These were the sons and grandsons of the men who had killed the Carlisle players’ fathers and grandfathers.

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AN ARIZONA PLAYER HOLDS a football prior to the UA-ASU rivalry game on Nov. 25 at Sun Devil Stadium.

Carlisle won that game 27-6.

No story about the Carlisle Indians Football Team would be complete without mentioning the Carlisle Indian School itself.

It was established in 1879 by General Richard Pratt with the goal of “civilizing” Native American children.

Students would be taken away from their homes, given makeovers and forbidden to speak their own languages.

Beatings were a regular punishment.

Students fought this by

secretly speaking to each other at night in their native languages and by frequently running away.

The school shut down in 1918.

For the players, football afforded them greater freedom than they had in the school.

It was not easy, but very little in life had been easy for them.

After leaving Carlisle, Pop Warner said, “On the athletic field, where the struggle was man-to-man, they felt that the Indian had his first even break.”

The NFL was projected to make $13 billion in 2016. How

much of that would have been possible without the underdog team of Native American students who changed the modern game?

“Football is so popular,” Sheinkin said. “I wish people knew how much the Carlisle Team contributed to football. I think fans should know that.”

Sheinkin will be speaking on a panel at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 10, at 4 p.m. in the Education building.

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FOOTBALL

Return of a legend With the hire of Kevin Sumlin, former UA football coach Dick Tomey may play a bigger part of the program moving foward

BY ROB KLEIFIELD @RobKAllDay1

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n 1987, Dick Tomey accepted the head coach position at the University of Arizona. At 48-years-old, the Indiana native inherited one of the more promising programs in all of college football. Just one year prior, the Wildcats defeated North Carolina in the Aloha Bowl, capping off a 9-3 record and earning the school’s first postseason victory.

No one could have predicted then that Tomey would resign on his own terms 13 years later as perhaps Arizona’s all-time greatest leader.

Before being named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1992, and leading the Wildcats to a memorable 12-1 campaign in 1998, Tomey spent the previous 10 years away from the mainland, instilling a culture of success in the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.

In the summer of 1977, Tomey fit the bill for what the Rainbow Warriors were searching for in their next head coach candidate. He traded out his position as an assistant at UCLA in Westwood to take the reins nearly 3,000 miles away, in a place that was just beginning to appreciate football.

Tomey’s arrival launched a new era for the Rainbow Warriors. Within three years he transformed the program, logging back-to-back six-win seasons before cracking the Associated Press Top 20 ranking in 1981 for the first time in school history. A 17-5 record highlighted his tenure at Hawaii over the 1980-81 seasons.

The Dick Tomey-era at the University of Hawaii produced the Rainbow Warriors’ first AP firstteam All-American, Al Noga, in 1981. Tomey was also awarded WAC Coach of the Year honors that same season.

When Tomey arrived in Tucson in 1987, he brought the same passion for coaching that had propelled his team at Hawaii to new heights. He also managed to keep intact several key relationships with potential recruits – specifically in the Polynesian community.

Tomey thrived in Tucson, Arizona from the fall of 1987 until his resignation at the conclusion of the 2000 season. He finished his Pac-10 coaching career with 95 wins – most all-time at the UA – and four bowl victories. Tomey’s Wildcats reached double-digit win totals on two separate occasions, and defeated the defending National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers in the 1998 Holiday Bowl. He coached 20 All-Americans, 43 All-Pac-10 first-team selections, and five first round draft picks. His star-studded cast of defenders took the nation by storm in the mid-1990s, earning the nickname “Desert Swarm.”

For all of these reasons and more, Tomey is largely considered the best football coach in Arizona school history.

In September of 2017, Tomey resurfaced in the desert – this time for seemingly unrelated news.

He had published a book. Rather than giving a glimpse into his own journey, which began in Bloomington, Indiana, and spread far across the mainland, Tomey chose to tell the story of his birthplace in college football – the big island.

“Rise of the Rainbow Warriors: Ten Unforgettable Years of University of Hawaii Football” is Tomey’s recollection of his time spent leading a group of men that proudly carried the banner of the Rainbow Warriors. He looks back on his first, and last, moments at the University of Hawaii, and all of the changes that occurred in between. Tomey reminds us that there is so much more to life than just playing football.

The legacy that Tomey built at the UA seems more pertinent now than ever. In the wake of the sexual harassment investigation surrounding ex-head football coach Rich Rodriguez, Arizona athletic director Dave Heeke made a big step in the right direction by hiring former Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin.

Sumlin’s celebrity impact and turnover amongst the staff yielded results almost immediately at Arizona.

For the first time since the Mike Stoops era, the Wildcats have aggressively attacked the Polynesian pipeline. Contrary to the recruiting efforts of Rodriguez and his position coaches, Arizona seems to be once again focusing on acquiring a slew of American-Samoan prospects.

Within a month of his arrival, Sumlin and his staff had extended offers to several of the top Polynesian playmakers. A familiar name around Tucson happened to be communicating with the Wildcats new head coach.

Although Tomey wasn’t seen back at his old stomping grounds when Sumlin was formally introduced as Arizona’s new head coach in January – he was most likely paddle boarding in Hawaii – Sumlin still managed to reach out to Tomey. Wisely, the two discussed the nature of the program and Tomey’s own experiences recruiting from the desert. Sumlin said that they’ve known each other for quite some time, but that until now he hadn’t longed for Tomey’s advice.

Both Wildcat head coaches, new and old, one the winningest in UA history, and the other just now getting used to the warm winters in Tucson, agreed on one thing – this is a place where championships can be won.

As long as Tomey’s influence continues to speak to Sumlin, even from 3,000 miles away, the future of Arizona football is looking up.

On March 10-11, Tomey will return to Tucson to take part in the Festival of Books where he will share his insights about his book “Rise of the Rainbow Warriors: Ten Unforgettable Years of University of Hawaii Football.”

LEFT: The UA football team runs out into Arizona Stadium before the game against Houston on Sept. 9, 2017. (Photo by Heather Newberry | The Daily Wildcat) RIGHT: Richard Hastings Tomey is an American football coach and former player. Tomey has served as the head football coach at the University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona and San Jose State University. His new book is titled “Rise of the Rainbow Warriors.” (Tucson Festival of Books)

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