The names topping the list of the 2011 Arkansas Literary Festival include David Sedaris and Ree Drummond, and Arkansas’s own Charlaine Harris and Kevin Brockmeier.
Central Arkansas Library System director Bobby Roberts unveiled the complete line-up this morning inside the third-floor conference room of the Cox Creative Center, aside two tables of books.
One table supported about two-dozen titles, each one a featured author or subject. On the other, the complete works of Sedaris, an essayist and humorist, along with luminous yo-yos and pencils — toys that reflect the youth-oriented objectives of the festival.
More than one book featured a giant fish on the cover, and event coordinator Brad Mooy promises two fish-book authors will join intellects for a “fishtacular” session over at the nature center across the street.
Drummond is creator of The Pioneer Woman blog, a sort of running chronicle of an uptown girl gone country. Harris is author of the Sookie Stackhouse series of Southern vampire novels upon which the HBO television show True Blood is adapted. Brockmeier, not yet 40, is the prize-winning novelist whose The Illumination came out earlier this month.
The literary festival isn’t just a series of readings and discussions. There are two cooking workshops scheduled, a poetry slam, an unplugged concert by Len Holton of the Little Rock Folk Club who’ll open for community organizer and musician Si Kahn, children’s music by Brian and Terri Kinder, and a puppet show by Jan Wolfe.
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For a list of authors and events, visit www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org