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Six Bridges Book Festival

Jared Lemus & Dr. Samantha Edmonds
2025-10-04 17:30:00 2025-10-04 18:30:00 America/Chicago Six Bridges Book Festival <b>PRESENTERS:</b> Jared Lemus & Dr. Samantha Edmonds<br> <b>BOOKS:</b> <i>Guatemalan Rhapsody</i> & <i>A Preponderance of Starry Beings</i><br> <b>MODERATOR:</b> Daniel Ford Main Library - 529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom

Saturday, October 04
5:30pm - 6:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-04 17:30:00 2025-10-04 18:30:00 America/Chicago Six Bridges Book Festival <b>PRESENTERS:</b> Jared Lemus & Dr. Samantha Edmonds<br> <b>BOOKS:</b> <i>Guatemalan Rhapsody</i> & <i>A Preponderance of Starry Beings</i><br> <b>MODERATOR:</b> Daniel Ford Main Library - 529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom

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529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom

PRESENTERS: Jared Lemus & Dr. Samantha Edmonds
BOOKS: Guatemalan Rhapsody & A Preponderance of Starry Beings
MODERATOR: Daniel Ford

About the authors:

Jared Lemus is the author of two works of fiction published with Ecco-HarperCollins: the short-story collection Guatemalan Rhapsody and a forthcoming novel. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Story, the Pinch, and the Kenyon Review, among others. He holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Samantha Edmonds is the author of the chapbooks The Space Poet and Pretty to Think So. Her work appears in the New York Times, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Mississippi Review, and the Rumpus, among others. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Berry College and lives in Rome, Georgia.

About the books:

A vibrant debut story collection—poignant, unflinching, and immersive—masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, the short-story collection Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer do. It explores how we journey from the circumstances that we are forged by, and whether the ability to change our fortunes lies in our own hands or in those of another.

Blending fairy tale and science fiction with the otherworldliness of adolescence, A Preponderance of Starry Beings is a short-story collection for anyone prone to gazing skyward. In seventeen genre-bending stories of the cosmos, Edmonds probes the experience of coming of age on the outskirts of the universe, whether that be a small Midwestern town or a distant galaxy, and of weighing earthly obligations against the vast promises of space. These stories invite us into a mundane and whimsical world of night islands, alien planets, small towns, and faith lost and found, where a safe landing matters less than taking the leap.

Sponsored by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Literary and Performing Arts

AGE GROUP: | Teens ages 12-19 | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Society & Culture | Literature & Language |

TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival |

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230 | Teen Center Program Room
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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504 | Adult Programming Room
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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Wed, Jan 21, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
230 | Teen Center Program Room
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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Fri, Jan 23, 10:30am - 11:15am
131 | Martin Children's Center
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Fri, Jan 23, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
230 | Teen Center Program Room
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Sat, Jan 24, 11:30am - 12:25pm
504 | Adult Programming Room
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504 | Adult Programming Room
It's time to line dance again at the library! Come scoot and boogie your way on down to the library for this fun line dancing class provided by Walk U Thru It Line Dancing.
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235 | Makerspace
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230 | Teen Center Program Room
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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Tue, Jan 27, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
013 | The Hatcher Agency Computer Classroom
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230 | Teen Center Program Room
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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230 | Teen Center Program Room
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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013 | The Hatcher Agency Computer Classroom
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131 | Martin Children's Center
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