I’ll be joining the writers Tom Franklin, John Hennessy, Tony Tost, Padma Viswanathan, and Steve Yarbrough at a reading and conversation in honor of Donald “Skip” Hays and his posthumously published novel The Great Awakening. The event is free and open to the public, and will be hosted by Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with additional sponsorship by the Porter Fund for Literary Excellence.