Writing

INTERVIEW / NICHOLAS CLARO PHOTO / KAT WILSON There’s a big difference between being talked to, and talked at. I encountered the former a ...

Literary heavyweights Lois Lowry and Zadie Smith are coming to Northwest Arkansas this fall.  True Lit: Fayetteville’s Literary Festival ...

We want your words – send us your favorite short story.  Please email a MS Word or TXT file to editorial (at ) idleclassmag (dot) com...

The Writers’ Colony in the Victorian arts village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas is offering three fellowships that include a two-week stay f...

WORDS & PHOTOS / KODY FORD Those who declare print dead, should have been at 10th annual Books in Bloom Literary Festival in Eureka Spri...

WORDS & PHOTO / KODY FORD The obituary of the independent bookstore was written years ago by pundits and media outlets happy to push the...

WORDS / JAY JENNINGS ILLUSTRATION / CHAD MAUPIN Very few Arkansans go away and stay away. Sam Walton stuck around even as his retail operati...

Portrait of a Beautiful White Mess By Jim Miller She packs the complimentary spiral ham away in her lonely plastic Tupperware container of s...

LIFE BLOOD By Jim Miller Laying in the Plasma Bank I think about how nice it would be to bring a date here where there is cash prize bingo a...

Walton Arts Center will host the Divide Light: Operatic Performance Costumes of Lesley Dill exhibition Thursday, Feb. 6 through Sunday, A...