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Recommended reading: "The Overstory"

Powers' novel is an enthralling contradiction: It is a page-turner about trees and a story about the natural world that highlights what makes us human. It’s also really long, perfect for filling up your suddenly free hours.
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Guy Choate's "Gas! Gas! Gas!" is an illustrated look at Army life

Both Choate and illustrator Evan Hallmark will be onsite at the Central Arkansas Library System's Bookstore at Library Square for Second Friday Art Night, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Friday, March 13.
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Mark Barr's "Watershed" is electric

Barr has written an outstanding novel about characters he deeply cares about. That devotion, in turn, has allowed him to craft a delightful story about this country’s very first experience with a transformative technology, and about the lives of people who made up the first cross-over generation — those before and after the introduction of electricity.

'Stonewall 50': Five Questions with Seth Pennington of Sibling Rivalry Press

"That’s why it’s so important to open the floor to everyone, to make a space for queer art — everyone has a story but not everyone will share it if they are not seen first," Pennington said. "If we nurture this community we have, if we can be brave in that way, what I hope most: more queer people will stay."
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Beach Reads: Three collections worth getting lost in this summer

As much as we all envision ourselves on vacation in a deep literary trance for hours on end, summer days don't work that way, especially for those of us with young ones to keep alive. Here are three books that may be flying under your radar — all of which have an Arkansas connection, and all of which are collections, and therefore a bit more forgiving of the inevitable toddler-adjacent interruption.

‘Hipbillies’ is a homesteading mythbuster set in the Ozarks

Land in the Ozarks at that time was relatively inexpensive, but even the most well-intended homesteaders could run into snags born of inexperience. Take, for example, Cindy Davidson and a group from Little Rock, who inadvertently purchased a parcel of land with no road access whatsoever.
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Wondering what books are banned in Arkansas's prisons? It's confidential

Curious about what books are banned in Arkansas's prisons? Well, too bad, that information is not part of the public record because Arkansas holds information about rejections of publications within each individual prisoner's file.

Eliza Borné is named editor-in-chief of the Oxford American

The Oxford American, the quarterly literary magazine based in Little Rock, announced this afternoon that interim editor Eliza Borné will take over as editor-in-chief, the magazine's third since it was founded in 1992. A Little Rock native, Borné has been an editor at the magazine since 2013, and previously worked at the Nashville publication Bookpage.
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Zadie Smith, Lois Lowry to headline Fayetteville Literary Festival in October

The Fayetteville Literary Festival is fast approaching, with events scheduled Oct. 1-7 at the Fayetteville Public Library. The University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation announced this morning that the novelist and essayist Zadie Smith will appear at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5.

'Scars: An Anthology' release tonight, features Little Rock authors

A new book, "Scars: An Anthology," which aims to "examine the range and nuance of experience related to scars of the body," features five writers from Little Rock, including Erin Wood (also the book's editor), Jason Wiest, Phillip Martin, Andrea Zekis and Lea Clyburn.
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Silver Jews' David Berman reads Frank Stanford

This year's revival of the legendary Arkansas poet Frank Stanford continues with the release of Third Man Books' "Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives," the second Stanford collection to arrive in 2015, this one compiling "unpublished poems, drafts, never before seen photos, and correspondences between Stanford, Allen Ginsberg, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Alan Dugan, and more." To promote the book, here's David Berman — the great poet and front man of the now-defunct band Silver Jews — reading an untitled Stanford poem.

No Laman Writers Fellowship this year

Because of Laman Library's financial straits, the library will not award its yearly writer's fellowshp. Mary Furlough, the interim director at the library, has informed the judges that she hopes to be able to award the fellowship again some time in the future.
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