The novelist and short fiction author Ladee Hubbard will be the Distinguished Reader at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Willard and Pat Walker Community Room of the Fayetteville Public Library.
The longlist for next year’s Aspen Words Literary Prize features 14 authors in the running for a $35,000 award that honors “a work of fiction that highlights a vital contemporary issue.”
Lauren Hodges is an associate producer for All Things Considered. She joined the show in 2018 after seven years in the NPR newsroom as a producer and editor. She doesn't mind that you used her pens, she just likes them a certain way and asks that you put them back the way you found them, thanks. Despite years working on interviews with notable politicians, public figures, and celebrities for NPR, Hodges completely lost her cool when she heard RuPaul's voice and was told to sit quietly in a corner during the rest of the interview. She promises to do better next time.