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Foristina Campbell was 15 years old when she ran away from her Missouri home to join the circus. Later in life she was a recognized figure in Springdale. Campbell's story serves as the inspiration for Becky Marietta’s novel, “White River Red.” Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams traveled to the John Brown University campus to meet Marietta in her office and discuss the book.
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Geoff Brock is making sure our bookshelves stay full. This year, three books with his name have been published— two are translations, and the third is his latest collection of poetry. Geoff’s own words are contained in his new collection of poetry, "After." Last week, Geoff was in the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about each of the books.
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Maintaining privacy in a digital age can be a challenge— or not depending upon how you define privacy. A new book, “Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds,” examines privacy from many different disciplines. The book collects essays and thoughts from several different Arkansas-based scholars, and it was edited by the University of Arkansas' Lynda Coon and Mary Lacity. She came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to discuss the new work.
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Arkansas native and author Eli Cranor turns his focus on the poultry industry as the backdrop for his latest novel "Broiler".
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Over the course of more than 700 pages, author Randall Woods lays out a biography of Quincy Adams as a whole person, not just a list of accomplishments.
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Uchenna Awoke is a self-taught writer. He says that growing up in Nigeria, his parents weren’t especially excited about their son wanting to write for a career. An avid reader, he stuck with it, and his first novel, "The Liquid Eye of a Moon," has just been published by Catapult Press. Awoke visited the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to discuss the novel.
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Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams speaks with Larry Tye, author of the new book “The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.” The book includes anecdotes and historical accounts detailing how the three legends battled Jim Crow to become global superstars and, as the book title suggests, change the country.
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Writer Rawand Mustafa's collection of poetry, "Umbilical Discord," connects testimonies of war, loss and displacement from the 1948 Nakba with personal stories and contemporary perceptions of Palestinian identity. Mustafa is the winner of the 2024 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press.
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Amanda Churchill’s debut novel, "The Turtle House," is about a grandmother and granddaughter who get to know each other and discover things about each other that few other people know.
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Caroline Earleywine’s poetry examines teaching, love, friendship, coming out and how all of those topics intertwine with each other in her collection of poems called "I Now Pronounce You."
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Marriah Berquist's most recent poetry was written in response to the war in Gaza. On Sunday evening, the poet will organize a reading event at Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville. Berquist visited with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams in the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio about her poetry and the unlikely friendship it cultivated.
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Author Tim Alberta says the topic of his newest book was cemented soon after the release of his debut. His father was an evangelical pastor for many years in Michigan, who passed away just after its release.