UNC-Chapel Hill historian and Fayetteville native Kathleen DuVal previews her Pulitzer Prize-winning book ahead of a public conversation at the Fayetteville Public Library.

Author Benjamin Hale discusses Cave Mountain, his new book linking his cousin's 2001 rescue in Newton County with a 1978 cult murder in the same Arkansas wilderness, at the Fayetteville Public Library on March 10.

Travis Simpson, editor of The Courier in Russellville, talks about his Printz Honor-winning novel "Cope Field," getting boys to read and why local newspapers still matter.

Researcher Abby Burnett says some Arkansas tombstones name murderers, while others tell outright lies. She discusses her new book at the Fayetteville Public Library on Sunday.

Caroline Jennings earned degrees in both applied mathematics and creative writing at the University of Arkansas. Her new chapbook draws on both, and so does her creative process.

Historian Janet Allured discusses the life of Theressa Hoover, a Fayetteville native who led United Methodist Women for over 20 years and broke barriers for Black women in faith.

Cindy Quayle's fourth Claire O'Keefe mystery, Lies Are Better at the Lake, brings her scuba-diving sleuth home to a fictionalized Northwest Arkansas for an event at Pearl's Books on April 12.

Dan Boice, library director at UA Monticello, discusses his book and radio series on Arkansas place names — how towns got their monikers and what those names reveal about the people who settled there.

Author Joanna Dee Das explores how Branson, Missouri, transformed from an Ozark tourist town into a hub for faith-based and patriotic entertainment that shaped American conservatism.

Historian Ashley Farmer discusses her book "Queen Mother," tracing Audley Moore’s decades of activism in Black nationalism, reparations and organizing — and why her story still resonates today.