A self-help guide for misfits

A self-help guide for misfits

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
By Alyssa Jenkins

When Dotty Oliver started the Little Rock Free Press in 1993 (which
later became the Arkansas Free Press in 1999 after being sued by then
Gov. Mike Huckabee), she was a single mom with no money and a
seemingly impossible dream: to create a public forum "for the rest of us."

Stripped of pretense and profit motivation, the Free Press quickly
became a bastion for Arkansas' vibrant counterculture. Even now, 16
years later, the recently deceased "Freep" is still synonymous with
the great American ideals it always embodied -- life, liberty, and
(perhaps especially) the pursuit of happiness.

Oliver's new book, Mistress of the Misunderstood, is a collection of
editorial columns and short stories from her years at the Free Press
with a new story about the infamous lawsuit by then Gov. Huckabee.

Often hilarious and always irreverent, each page is an exciting
glimpse into the mind of one of Arkansas' most notorious characters.

This truly is a book for everyone, from hippies to hookers to
historians. With descriptions like "Gloria Steinem meets Hunter S.
Thompson" and comparisons to Mark Twain's Roughing It, the "Mistress"
is a self-help guide for misfits everywhere.

Mistress of the Misunderstood is now available locally at Gazebo
Books in Eureka Springs and Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

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