The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m., MST
Place: Baker Center for Public Media, 2685 S. Catalyst Drive, Tucson, AZ
will be featured on a live recording of “Arizona Spotlight,” produced by Arizona Public Media (AZPM). The show will be recorded before a live audience in the state-of-the-art performance studio at the Baker Center. This unique event offers a behind-the-scenes opportunity to experience Arizona Spotlight as it happens and be part of an engaging evening celebrating conversation, community, and culture. Other artists and authors participating include Linda D. Addison, Alejandro Canelo, and Rebekah Doyle.
Attendees are encouraged to bring new school supplies to donate to Arizona Public Media’s Boys & Girls Club Back-to-School Drive. Every donation helps local children head back to school prepared and ready to learn. This event is free and open to the public. If you are able, AZPM welcomes suggested donation of $10 to help support AZPM community events.
About the book:
What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?
In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”
As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios
