Photos: First day of the Tucson Festival Of Books
The opening day of TFOB on the mall at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., March 9 ,2024.
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Artist Frank Powers fires off a bunch of bubbles from his bubble gun while working with the crowd outside his Comic Bookmobile at the Tucson Festival Of Books on the U A Mall, Tucson, Ariz., March 9, 2024. Thousands attended the first day of the festival to meet authors, publishers, sellers and readers.
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The crowd looks over the stock on sale in the University of Arizona Bookstore tent, one of the largest dealer set-ups at the Tucson Festival of Books on the UA Mall on March 9, 2024.
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Maia Mukesh reads her copy of Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi, putting her wait in the long line to get the book singed to good use at the Tucson Festival Of Books on the U A Mall, Tucson, Ariz., March 9, 2024.
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Colton Arviso gets his first try at playing a clarinet while trying out many of the instruments on hand at the Instrumental Music Center booth at the Tucson Festival of Books on the UA Mall on March 9, 2024.
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Auggie Mendygral takes a spin on the aerial sling between performances by The Circus Aerial Academy of Tucson at the Tucson Festival Of Books on the U A Mall, Tucson, Ariz., March 9, 2024. The academy’s shows were only one of the many acts on on stages throughout the mall on hand to entertain the crowd.
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A couple of hundred fans stand in line to get their books signed by authors presenting at the Tucson Festival Of Books on the U A Mall, Tucson, Ariz., March 9, 2024.
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Author Lovern Gordon talks with a customer from her booth at the Tucson Festival Of Books on the U A Mall, Tucson, Ariz., March 9, 2024.
Kelly Presnell
Photojournalist
Welz Kauffman had been on the job less than two months when he resigned from the Tucson Festival of Books, two days after the 2024 event wrapped up.