by Do South | Dec 1, 2023 | Guides
by Do South | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured, People
Fort Smith author Joyce Faulkner sits across from writer and UAFS Assistant Professor of History Tom Wing at the Fort Smith Library on Rogers Avenue. The two talk easily, sometimes finishing each other’s sentences. “We work really well together,” Joyce says, and Tom...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2023 | Featured, People
It’s one o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon when award-winning novelist Eli Cranor walks into Dog Ear Books in Russellville, Arkansas. Conjure up an image of a nose-to-the-grindstone writer, and you might imagine rounded shoulders, a gaze rising above a pair of strong...
by Do South | Jan 1, 2018 | Southern Lit
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] The Arkansas River, at least where Liddie lives, is not the world’s most beautiful waterway, but she still goes to the grounds of the National Historic Site in Fort Smith to see it when the weather’s nice....
by Do South | Sep 1, 2016 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: Marla Cantrell and courtesy Debbie Foliart”][/title] Debbie Foliart sits at a table inside Chapters on Main in Van Buren, Arkansas, and looks out the window that faces the Old Frisco Depot. Soon, tourists will...