Summit Show & Tell
A photo recap of the best week of our lives. Bet you wish you were there!
Approaching Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain, the first day.
Wells Tower's fiction workshop on the patio of the Studio (the swankest of lodging & star-gazing venues).
Kevin Brockmeier and manuscript just before a daily session.
The Boathouse: classroom locale by day (see: Tom Franklin & co.), audience to Tyrannosaurus Chicken and True Soul Revue (and clandestinity) by night.
WRI executive chef Heather Welch's take on fried green tomatoes, garnished with a dollop of mozzarella cheese and bacon, of course.
Smirnoff and William Whitworth, editor emeritus of The Atlantic and former New Yorker writer and editor, talk writer relations, the ideal form of editing, and The Beatles (sort of).
Happy hour(s) barside at WRI.
"We're actors, dammit." The Arkansas Shakespeare Troupe and friends go mic-less in their acting of Charles Portis's Dog of the South.
Custom and locally flavored cocktails ruled the Summit's afternoon receptions. That's Rock Town Distillery's Arkansas Lightning you're drooling for there.
At the William Whitworth reception, drinks and Mr. Whitworth's editing example in hand.
Jay Jennings's nonfiction workshop at the Teaching Barn.
The Oxford Divas, The Swim Team, and The Eyes of...[etc.] compete in the literary quiz show for Oxford American booty and fame, forever.
Interview on the Mountain II with Pico Iyer, our personal fountain of wisdom and profundity for an hour and a half, though a week would not have been enough.
Morning hiking at Petit Jean State Park.
Scott Huler's nonfiction workshop.
Fiction workshopping with Heidi Julavits.
Mr. Remnick and our Summit darlings at his pre-lecture reception.
David Remnick recalling the frustration of an off-the-record airplane ride with former President Clinton and a gaggle of sleepy reporters.
Don't Stop Please, a funky folk-music band out of Conway, woo us with their youth and harmonies.
Smirnoff fulfilling his missed calling as a coach at our First Annual Oxford American Summit Softball game.
End of the inning, beginning of Huler's team's ending at the hands/bats of Smirnoff's.
Kevin Brockmeier and Cristina Henríquez at Saturday's Day Teacher panel discussion, where we learned the best (and worst!) of the editorial advice they've heard and also why they write.
Rachel Ammons of Tryannosaurus Chicken dazzles us with more than her fiddling on Saturday's Get Down on the Mountain concert.
Sundown at the Boathouse on Saturday night, making conversation under our millinery.
True Soul Revue dishes out the funk at the Get Down on the Mountain concert.
Photos by Nicholas Pippins and Southern Girl.
