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For 11 days, beginning Thursday, Little Rock will become a hub for all things bookish.

In Samuel Johnson's last great work, "The Lives of the Poets," there is a fascinating passage about the intellect and reading habits of one of Johnson's most important literary models, 17th-century poet John Dryden.

It's toward the end of an interview earlier this month when Brad Mooy, coordinator of Central Arkansas Library System's annual Six Bridges Book Festival, perfectly describes the breadth of this year's edition.

I became aware of Kevin Brockmeier’s work back in 2008 when Robert Shearman, in an in­terview with Eric Forbes, included Brockmeier in a list of writers “who play with the short story, squeeze as much out of it as they can.” Sadly, I’ve only now gotten around to reading Brock­meier’s short fiction, picking up his latest col­lection The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. The book is the literary equivalent of a concept album, gathering together 100 ghostly vignettes and then breaking them up into 11 categories including, “Ghosts and Memory”, “Ghosts and Nature”, “Gh...

Each of the stories in Kevin Brockmeier’s story collection can be read in less than two distressing minutes.