“April Come She Will . . . “
“… when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.” With apologies to Paul Simon, here in the Sonoran Desert there are only dry streambeds this time of year. It did rain briefly, however, on the Saturday, March 10, day one of the Tucson Festival of Books, but that didn’t seem to deter the over 100,000 book lovers there. (The Festival’s now the third largest in the country. ) When I’m not working at Wheatmark, one of the things I do is volunteer for the Festival on the Book & Author Committee, where this year I was responsible for inviting authors who work in, or write about, the movie industry. Of all the authors I invited, the one who drew the biggest crowds was not a journeyman author with fifty titles, but first-time author Jenna Fischer. You may remember Fischer for playing Pam […]