Cave Mountain: A Reading and Conversation

Schedule

Tue Mar 10 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Fayetteville Public Library | Fayetteville, AR

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Two young girls go missing in the Ozarks, twenty-three years apart, in this new nonfiction book already gaining national attention. It takes place right here in our backyard.
Join author Benjamin Hale to hear him read from his new work and share a conversation with his niece, Haley Zega, as they discuss the circumstances around her 2001 disappearance. This event will take place at the Fayetteville Public Library on Tuesday, March 10, at 6 p.m. Come join us for a real, haunting Arkansas tale.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011), the short fiction collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2016), and the nonfiction book Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks (HarperCollins, 2026). He has received the Bard Fiction Prize, a Michener-Copernicus Award, and nominations for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. His writing has appeared, among other places, in Conjunctions, Harper’s Magazine, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dissent and the LA Review of Books Quarterly, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is a senior editor at Conjunctions, teaches at Bard College and Columbia University, and lives in a small town in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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