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Dear Loyal Readers,Happy Halloween! I wish you successful tricking and treating. In case this needs to be said, 100 Grand is the best candy bar. (It used to be Twix.) Thank you.Now let's get to this month's featured article. But before that:* If you're a newish subscriber: Since January 2020, I've chosen one article every month for a deep dive. Folks who are interested read it, annotate it, and discuss it. The author generously records a podcast interview. It's been fun.If you've never participated (that is to say, most of you), you're invited. We're a kind, thoughtful reading community. I think you'll enjoy it.All right, let's get down to business. I'm excited to announce this month's article: “Athens, Revised.” Written by Erin Wood and published in The Sun, the article is equal parts devastating and uplifting. It's raw and vulnerable. Throughout, it is brilliantly written.Here's what you can expect in today's issue:* My blurb about this month's article* A short biography about the author* A podcast interview with the author* What you need to do if you'd like to participateAre you already confident that you'd like to join? We're meeting up on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2:00 - 3:30 pm PT. All you need to do is click on the button below and sign up.

Diane Les Becquets is the author of THE LAST WOMAN IN THE FOREST (March, 2019) and BREAKING WILD, both published by Berkley, Penguin Random House. BREAKING WILD, an Indie Next Pick and a national bestseller, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist. It was also the recipient of the Colorado Book Award in Fiction, the New Hampshire Outstanding Work of Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction. Les Becquets is also the author of three young adult novels: THE STONES OF MOURNING CREEK (Kirkus starred review); LOVE, CAJUN STYLE (Booklist starred review) and SEASON OF ICE, the latter being the recipient of a Pen American Fellowship. Other awards she has received include a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, the Maine Lupine Award, ALA Best Book of the Year, Foreward Reviews Gold Winner Book of the Year, Volunteer State Book Award Selection, and Garden State Book Award Finalist. A former professor of English, Les Becquets has served as a judge for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission, and has taught writing workshops at venues across the country, including the University of Mississippi, Auburn University, the New Hampshire Writers' Project, the Department of Forestry, Writers Conference at Ocean Park, Writers in Paradise, the Arkansas Literary Festival, the Telluride Arts District, and at shelters for Katrina victims. She is a volunteer at Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center and an avid outdoors woman, enjoying archery, bicycling, snowshoeing, swimming, and backpacking with her dog, Izzy. Before moving to New Hampshire, where she now resides with her husband, she lived in a small ranching town in Northwestern Colorado for almost fourteen years, raising her three sons. Diane Les Becquets is a member of the New Hampshire Writers' Project, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, and the Pen American Center.

Matt DeCample has conversations with four authors featured at the 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival: Bill Worthen, co-author of "A Sure Defense: The Bowie Knife in America"; Laverne Bell-Tolliver, associate professor at the UA Little Rock's School of Social Work and the author of "The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools"; Monica Clark-Robinson, who has written a children's book -- "Let the Children March" -- about the 1963 Children's March in Birmingham; and Jennifer Case, author of the memoir "Sawbill: A Search for Place".

Matt DeCample has conversations with three authors featured at the 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival: Carmen Boullosa, author of seven volumes of poetry, two books of essays, ten plays, and eighteen novels, including "La otra mano de Lepanto" which has been deemed among the top works of literature written in Spanish in the last twenty-five years; Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and author of "Word by Word"; and David Giffels, author of "Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life", a memoir about the experience of building a coffin with his dying father.

Local breweries, local festivals. This week we kept it all in Arkansas, looking to Rock Town Distillery of Little Rock for the liquor to our lit. After hitting up the Author, Author! event of the annual Arkansas Literary Festival, held every April by the Arkansas Central Library, the L&L crew each chose a book by one of the attending authors, ranging from gothic paranormal to historical romance to nonfiction history. While not all the books were to our liking, the Rock Town bourbon and moonshine in our Ginger Snap and Lemonade Mint Julep gathered a five shot rating all around, and a Strawberry Gin Fizz made the perfect dessert drink to shut down this episode. Check out all our drink recipes on our Pinterest page, Lit & Liquor, and visit our Facebook, Instagram, or website for pictures of our drinks and books. Next week join us as we each pick two books that we feel are over— and underrated and discuss why all the hype!

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a special edition of Primary Sources with hosts Matt Decample and Amy Bradley Hull interviewing authors featured at the 2017 Arkansas Literary Festival, including Dominic Wallimann, Cora Daniels, Hussein Hussein, Therese Oneill, and Celia Anderson. For more information about the Arkansas Literary Festival, visit arkansasliteraryfestival.org.

Brief interviews with authors featured at the 2017 Arkansas Literary Festival, including: Hussein Hussein (01:04), Kanishk Tharoor (07:51), Dominic Walliman (18:50), Ed Bethune (24:18), Celia Anderson (35:35). For more information, visit www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org.

Brief interviews with authors featured at the 2017 Arkansas Literary Festival, including: Alex Beam (01:10), Cora Daniels (11:30), Odie Lindsey (20:48), Therese Oneill (29:45), Owen Laukkanen (41:35).For more information, visit www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org.

Matt DeCample has a conversation with Cara Brookins, author of "Rise: How a House Built a Family", a memoir about a series of traumatic events that led Brookins and her four children to build a 3,500-square-foot home from the ground up. Brookins will appear at the 2017 Arkansas Literary Festival. For more information, visit www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features an interview with former LRSD superintendent Baker Kurrus; a Bizarre Arkansas conversation with poet and professor Mark Spitzer about the Ozark Hellbender; an excerpt from Arkansas Literary Festival 2016; a new episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about barbecue, Rien Fertel, the Arkansas Literary Festival, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, the concept of whole hog barbecue, buffalo ribs (a form of fish), catfish (a slice of pork), attendant confusion about that, Craig's at DeValls Bluff, famous pie lady Mary Thomas, Lena's fried pies, the White Pig Inn, Caddo Valley, the Pig Pit, Mrs. Jack Frost, Burge's in Little Rock, Lewisville, Prescott, Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Maxine's, the White House in Camden, El Dorado, the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street program, the Lassis Inn in Little Rock, Central Fish Market in Pine Bluff, Greider Field, Saracen Lake, Ruby Jones, the Produce Shed, the Bulldog in Bald Knob, strawberry shortcake, Shane Broadway, Whole Hog Barbecue, the Dixie Pig in Blytheville, hot sauce, chicken livers, Doe's Eat Place, and Bill Bryson.

Join Dovestales as we interview the dynamic and triumphant Adrienne Thompson. This Woman of God worked as an RN for over ten years prior to becoming a full-time writer/publisher. Winner of the Reading Warrior Award in the categories of Women's Literature and Christian Fiction. Particpating Author and Panelist for the Arkansas Literary Festival. Nominated for the Reading Warrior Awards in categories of Breakout Author, Best Interracial, Women's Literature and Christian Fiction. Finalist for Inspirational Romance of the Year while also being nominated for Prodigy Publishing Group's Urban Literacy Award in the category of Romance. The amazing story of Adrienne Thompson is not one to be missed for her life was not always like this, for she was married at 16 and a mother twice by the age of 17. What a journey it has been, and what a Dovetale it will be. To weigh in on our topic call 646-668-8485 press 1 to be live on the air. Download the stitcher app on your mobile device or click on link here:

This week Radio CALS features selections from a lecture given by Dr. Ben Johnson about John Gould Fletcher at the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016; selections from a CALS Con 2016 panel discussion of Star Trek; excerpts from an interview with Ruth Shepherd; Chewing the Fat with Rex Nelson & Paul Austin; information about and music by Ben Nichols; and a genealogy segment featuring an interview with Maria Hoskins.

This week's broadcast of Radio CALS features a reading by Rien Fertel from his book, The One True Barbecue, from the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans held in internment camps in Arkansas during WWII; an interview with Guy Lancaster, editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA), on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the EOA; Bizarre Arkansas with a story about Dr. John Richard Brinkley, a notorious quack who practiced "medicine" in the 1930's in Arkansas; Chewing the Fat with Rex Nelson and Paul Austin; information about and music by Bob Dorough, a composer, lyricist, and musician from Arkansas who is best known for his jazz compositions and 1970s Schoolhouse Rock! shorts on ABC Saturday morning television; selections from Bagels & Books, a partnership between the CALS Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center and jUSt, a pending nonprofit that serves as the leadership for Global Kids Arkansas; a reading of a short story by Dave Wallis, who served as mayor of Pine Bluff and authored multiple books on Arkansas history; and an interview with Freeman McKindra, a teacher from Arkansas who has worked in community development with the Peace Corps and other groups.

An interview with Angie Macri, a poet featured in the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016, conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; selections from an interview with Sgt. A. Keith Jernigan, who served in the Korean War, conducted by Brian Robertson, senior archivist and manager of Research Services at the Butler Center; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Marvin Schwartz, author of "We Wanna Boogie", published by Butler Center Books; Information about CALS' audiobook service, OneClick Digital, from Jonathan Webb and Nathan Smith, CALS Information Services staff members; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about the alligator farm that housed a mummified merman, the ostrich farm that was home to over 300 African ostriches, and more in Hot Springs during the early twentieth century; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about Mount Magazine Lodge, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, Constitutional Amendment 75 and its effects on tourism in Arkansas, the transformation of Arkansas's Department of Parks and Tourism, Mountain View, the Little Red River, the need to pay attention to electrical power generators when fishing downstream from them, Village Creek State Park, peaches, Uncle John's at Crawfordsville, West Central Arkansas, Queen Wilhelmina Lodge, Rich Mountain, Mena, bears, once-frequent plane crashes on Rich Mountain, Oliver North, DeGray Lake, the Shangri La Resort, Mount Ida, Paul's Tom Sawyer experience featuring a run-in with a barge on the Mississippi River, Snow Lake, White River Refuge, Desha County, Imboden, crappie, smallmouth bass, Crooked Creek, fishing the White River before the dams were put in, Jerry McKinnis, Lake Chicot, De Valls Bluff, Pocahontas, the Current River, Stoby's in Conway, old-time breakfast places and political discussions, Wallace Grill in Little Rock, Thelma's in Imboden, the Grill in Walnut Ridge, Paul's initiation into the grown-up world of coffee breaks, Waffle House, the back booth at the Snow White in Pine Bluff, the round table in the corner of the cafe at the State Capitol, and the Pancake Shop in Hot Springs; an interview with Suzy Parker, an author who will be featured at the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016 -- interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; an interview with Sofia Gonzales, who will teach an upcoming CALS Community Learning course on embroidery; interview conducted by Kristen Cooke, CALS staff member (continued from last week).

An interview with Kevin Brockmeier, an author featured in the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016, conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; Selections from an interview with Dr. Ann Tice, a retired dermatologist who talks about growing up in a family of physicians and her non-traditional path to medical school; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans who were held in internment camps in Arkansas during World War II; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about Cherokee Village, the sales force at the Village and their sometimes-shady techniques involving Elvis and Jesus, an outstanding collection of shag carpet, the emergence of retirement communities, Paul's viewing of the moon landing in July 1969, John Cooper and his other developments at Bella Vista and Hot Springs Village, messing with salesmen, Horseshoe Bend, Holiday Island, the ferry at Norfork, the beginnings of tourism in North Arkansas, Imboden (a new record: Paul took seven minutes to mention his hometown), the great rivers and streams of Arkansas, fishing for smallmouth bass, the Eleven Point River, the Spring, the Strawberry, the Current, trout fishing in the cold water from Mammoth Spring to Hardy, Black Rock, the South Fork of the Spring, drum, perch, catfish, spring break on the Spring River, jon boats, the Many Islands, the use of hammers and electricity in catching and preparing fish, W.O. Prince's place on the Cache River, Murray's at De Valls Bluff, the Caddo River, Caddo Gap, how a longnose gar frightened a fellow from Virginia who thought it was a dinosaur, the Little Red River, and Lindsey's trout resort near Heber Springs; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about reports of mysterious flying objects seen in the Ouachita Mountains in 1897; An interview with Gabrielle Simone, a very young published author who will be featured at the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016 -- interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; An interview with Sofia Gonzales, who will teach an upcoming CALS Community Learning course on embroidery; interview conducted by Kristen Cooke, CALS staff member; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Ed Bethune; Selections from an Arkansas Sounds concert featuring Charley Sandage and Harmony, who present original music in a traditional Arkansas folk style.

An interview with Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival, conducted by Brad Mooy, CALS' coordinator of the Literary Festival; an interview with Stephanie Meincke, president & CEO of the Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance, conducted by Christine Gronwald, CALS' development coordinator; they discuss ArkansasGives, an upcoming online giving event sponsored by the Arkansas Community Foundation on Thursday, April 7, from 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.; visit bit.ly/calsargives at that time to donate to Central Arkansas Library System Foundation and help CALS earn bonus dollars in addition to your donation; an interview with Angelic Saulsberry, CALS' information technology staff member, conducted by Kristin Cooke, CALS' adult programming coordinator; they discuss Angelic's top five favorite books and the library services she uses the most; an interview with Laura Neale, teen programmer at CALS McMath Library and coordinator of CALS Con 2016, a free family-friendly celebration of pop culture fandom; interview conducted by Laura Hodo, manager of CALS McMath Library; they discuss this year's expansion of the event and what self-professed nerds and geeks can expect to enjoy at this year's event; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about antique shops, Dutch ovens, Arkansas expert John Ragsdale and the possibility that sales of his several Dutch oven books to Boy Scouts have made him the best-selling author in the state's history, the care and usage of cast-iron cooking implements, scouting adventures and disasters, Troops 23, 24, and 64, the great egg fight at Paul's last Boy Scout campout, Camp Winnamocka, Camp Ozark, Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Baptist camps in New Mexico and North Carolina, Boy's Life magazine, FFA camp at Couchwood, Harvey Couch, Boys State and Girls State, Paul's expertise with parliamentary procedure, Camp Robinson, the Arkansas National Guard, former Sunday school teachers, the 1997 tornadoes, archaeology in Arkansas, the amazing and almost artistic lineup of abandoned cars and trucks outside of Biscoe, W.O.'s Arkansas caviar from the Lower White River, turtle eggs, and standing in line to get catfish steaks at the airport at Pine Bluff; an interview with Sue Gaiser, who talks about her childhood, her six siblings, and one of the most important people in her life, her mother; an interview with Mick Wiggins, an illustrator/artist who has created numerous book covers; interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; Wiggins will participate with other artists in a panel discussion about design at the Arkansas Literary Festival; information about Hoopla, one of CALS' digital services, presented by Jonathan Webb and Lara Browning-Kamins, CALS' information services staff members; a Take 5 interview with the Bob Boyd Sounds, a music group led by Bob Boyd who will perform for the Arkansas Sounds concert series on Friday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

Selections from an interview with Bobby Roberts, who retired as director of the Central Arkansas Library System on March 4, 2016, after leading the system for almost 27 years; in this segment, Roberts discusses bond campaigns, the amount of funding approved by voters for public libraries, the growth and future of digital activity in the library system, changes in community use of library services, the increase in yearly income needed for the library to continue operating at its current levels, Roberts' plans for retirement, rural libraries in Arkansas, Roberts' work with prison systems, the positive and negative effects of term limits on the Arkansas General Assembly, and more; an interview with Laura Neale, teen programmer at CALS McMath Library and coordinator of CALS Con 2016, a free family-friendly celebration of pop culture fandom; interview conducted by Laura Hodo, manager of CALS McMath Library; they discuss this year's expansion of the event and what self-professed nerds and geeks can expect to enjoy at this year's event; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about a traveling salesman known only as "Old Mike" who became a macabre tourist attraction in Prescott when he passed away and his corpse was displayed for many years while attempts were made to determine his identity.Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who chew the fat about Girl Scout and Boy Scout camps, Cedar Valley, Camp Tula, Camp Orr, the Buffalo River, Viola, the Baptist camp at Ravenden Springs, Siloam Springs, Methodist camp meetings, the Methodist camp at Davidson, kids and camp jokes about food -- "This is Sue; she makes our stew" -- the Cedar Glade camp, Baptist Royal Ambassadors, getting poison ivy and poison oak and chigger bites at the same time, hauling hay, BLTs, Vienna sausage, homemade chocolate rolls, the "rock crusher" near Imboden and the perils of working at a gravel pit, Bauxite, "alum teeth," the Alum Fork of the Saline River, Black Rock, Herschel Bryant, Paul's friend who rode his bike into a flooded gravel pit for a dollar, the Devil's Bathtub, the Needle's Eye, Watauga Springs, Cave City, people who get gallons of water at the public fountains in Hot Springs, the believed medicinal properties of the water at Heber Springs, eating Vicks VapoRub, Rex's grandfather's obsession with Alka-Seltzer, Paul's run-in with a lady who got him to take turpentine and sugar for a stomach malady, and using aspirin and Coca-Cola as a cure-all; an interview with Erin Wood, editor of "Scars: An Anthology", which will be featured in the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016; interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, Lit Fest moderator chair; "Scars: An Anthology" examines the range and nuance of experiences related to scars of the body; it was published by Et Alia Press in Little Rock; Who You?, a genealogy segment featuring a continuation of an interview with Maria Hoskins, a former senior staff member of Vic Snyder; interview conducted by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center's local history and genealogy expert; they discuss Hoskins' process in writing her previous books and her upcoming publication, "Down Home in Arkansas: A Family Reunion Story"; an interview with Sue Geiser, who relays funny stories about her experiences with clumsiness throughout her life.

Selections from an interview with Bobby Roberts, who retired as director of the Central Arkansas Library System on March 4, 2016, after leading the system for almost 27 years; the interview was conducted at Legacies & Lunch on March 2, 2016, by Clinton School of Public Service Dean Skip Rutherford; in this segment, Roberts discusses the decision to build the Children's Library & Learning Center, his work with community developers, Ron Robinson, the reasoning behind the naming of branches, and millage elections he has conducted; an interview with Katie Campbell, director of School House Rock Live, a production by the Children's Theatre at the Arkansas Arts Center; interview conducted by Kate Chagnon, the Butler Center's programming & outreach coordinator; they discuss the Children's Theatre's partnership with CALS Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center and the Arkansas connections to School House Rock Live; an interview with Jeffrey Condran, author of Prague Summer, a novel that will be featured at this year's Arkansas Literary Festival; interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, Literary Festival moderator chair; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about mercantile stores that have become restaurants, Cypress Corner, the Caskey store at Des Arc, drinking Coke with peanuts in the bottle, Woodell's drug in Arkadelphia, "wiggling" as a method of determining who would pick up a lunch tab, the Pickens store near Dumas, Cherokee Village, Hardy, the Sitting Bull restaurant at Cherokee Village, developer John Cooper, Paul's attempts to disguise a disgusting odor in his car using Hai Karate cologne, and the existence of dancing at Cherokee Village and accompanying belief that it was a den of iniquity; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about reports of mysterious flying objects seen in the Ouachita Mountains in 1897; an interview with sisters Debra Brown and Regine Notto, who share their memories of family vacations in Hot Springs and the Grand Canyon; an interview with George West, the Butler Center's education coordinator, who discusses the upcoming Summer Seminar for Arkansas teachers which will focus on the work of Arkansas's Pulitzer Prize authors; interview conducted by David Stricklin, head of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies; Who You?, a genealogy segment featuring an interview with Maria Hoskins, a former senior staff member of Vic Snyder; interview conducted by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center's local history and genealogy expert; they discuss Hoskins' family history and upcoming publication, Down Home in Arkansas: A Family Reunion Story; an interview with Allen Alverson, Arkansas musician and member of Lark in the Morning, a band that will perform Celtic and Ozark roots music on vintage instruments tonight, Friday, March 18, at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater for Arkansas Sounds' Celtic Cultural Celebration.

Selections from an interview with Bobby Roberts, who retired as director of the Central Arkansas Library System on March 4, 2016, after leading the system for almost 27 years; the interview was conducted at Legacies & Lunch on March 2, 2016, by Clinton School of Public Service Dean Skip Rutherford; in this segment, Roberts discusses library funding in Arkansas, the evolution of CALS, the CALS Main Library campus, and the beginnings of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies; Information about CALS' digital resources from Information Services staff members; an interview with Tyrone Jaeger, author of So Many True Believers, a collection of short stories that will be featured at this year's Arkansas Literary Festival; interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, Literary Festival moderator chair; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about the St. Joe Mercantile and other general stores in Arkansas's past, including McLeod's and Matthews's at Imboden, Calahan's at Black Rock, Perry's at Ravenden, and Ernie Dunlap's at Kirby, going to Boy Scout camp at Lake Greeson, the Chidester store, Congo Mercantile, the Burdell store near Pocahontas, the Eleven Point River, the Spring River, the Hankins family store at Oil Trough, how Paul found 11 sailors from Lawrence County serving at the same time aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga, the 1992 election campaign, wood stoves, whittling benches, quail hunting, the Dalark stores, Sugar Jones, a man who fed his cow Oreo cookies, the Jingles store at Benton, and Walnut Ridge; an interview with Miss Arkansas, Loren McDaniel, for #CALSStories; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Charlotte Schexnayder, journalist and state politician; an interview with sisters Debra Brown and Regine Notto, who share their memories of growing up in El Dorado, Arkansas, with their loving, close-knit family; an interview with George West, Arkansas musician and member of Lark in the Morning, a band that will perform Celtic and Ozark roots music on vintage instruments at Butler Center Galleries.

Selections from an interview with Bobby Roberts, retiring director of the Central Arkansas Library System, conducted in 2010; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Bernadette Cahill, discussing women's fight for the right to vote in Arkansas, a topic she has researched thoroughly; information about CALS' digital resources from Information Services staff members; a reading of a letter from the Butler Center's collection of Civil War materials, written by George M. Blodgett, a Union sailor who spent part of the war in Arkansas; he describes an attack on the USS Mound City on the White River in Arkansas in 1862, sometimes called "the deadliest shot of the war"; Bizarre Arkansas, featuring information on Monte Ne, a partially completed, abandoned, and possibly haunted luxury resort built by failed presidential candidate William "Coin" Harvey; another installment of "Chewing the Fat with Rex & Paul"; "Authors on Air" with Brad Mooy, coordinator of the Arkansas Literary Festival, and Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Literary Festival; an interview with Geraldine Purcell Davidson, who shares her experiences at Fargo Agricultural School for African American Children, a private residential school operated until 1949 and located outside of Brinkley, Arkansas; an interview with Sgt. A. Keith Jernigan, a Korean War veteran.

Ahead of his appearance at the Arkansas Literary Festival, acclaimed author and critic Morgan Murphy talks with the Foodcast about his travels around the South searching for unique and memorable restaurants. We discuss his stops in Arkansas, including Charlotte's Eats and Sweets, Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales, and The Main Cheese. We also discuss Arkansas' contribution to America's bacon obsession and why bourbon reigns as king of Southern spirits. Murphy's new book "Off the Eaten Path: On the Road Again" hits bookshelves on May 5.