Eleven days, 70 authors, a dozen venues and bottomless brain food at the Six Bridges Book Festival. We talk with festival authors Kim Fu, Janis F. Kearney and Sam Quinones about their latest books.
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Little Rock author Mark Barr awarded 2022 Porter Fund Prize
Mark Barr, the little Rock-based author of the acclaimed novel “Watershed,” is the recipient of this year’s Porter Fund Literary Prize, a $5,000 prize awarded annually to a writer of distinction with an Arkansas connection. Past winners of the Porter Prize include Mara Leveritt, Morris Arnold, Kevin Brockmeier and Jo McDougall, the former Poet Laureate of Arkansas.
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Sewer issue temporarily closes Laman Library
Get well soon, Laman Library!
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‘Queerly Beloved’ book signing at WordsWorth Books tonight
Little Rock native and Parkview grad holds a book signing for her debut novel tonight at WordsWorth Books.
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Author Ronnie Williams gives talk on ‘Markham Street’ at Clinton Presidential Center Thursday night
Author Ronnie Williams talks about his new release “Markham Street,” which depicts his upbringing in Menifee’s Black community and his family’s “decades-long quest for racial justice following the death of his brother Marvin in 1960 at the then Faulkner County Jail.”
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Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to be depicted on U.S. quarter
Maya Angelou, who spent some formative years in Stamps in South Arkansas, is the first Black woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter.
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The history of lynching in Arkansas (and its troubling modern-day parallels)
Lynching is part of our state’s past. Is it doomed to be part of our future?
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A rare silk booklet of antique Japanese tattoo art has a mysterious Little Rock connection
Somehow, a singularly rare specimen of antique Japanese tattoo flash made its way into the hands of a working-class Arkansan who never traveled much of anywhere. Now, its contents have been reproduced meticulously in a new book called “Floating West,” shining light on a sparsely documented era of the inky art form.
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Arkansas chapter of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gets $24K boost
Dolly Parton’s working her literacy magic in Arkansas, with a $24K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Author Miguel De La Torre talks ‘Decolonizing Christianity’ at Pyramid Art tonight
Tonight at Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing: a talk from Cuba-born theologist Miguel de la Torre.