Retyping "True Grit"

Event Dates/Times:

• Thursday, March 19, 2026
  3 p.m.
• Friday, March 20, 2026
  7 p.m.
• Saturday, March 21, 2026
  3 p.m.
• Sunday, March 22, 2026
  4 p.m.
• Tuesday, March 24, 2026
  12 p.m.
• Wednesday, March 25, 2026
  2 p.m.
• Thursday, March 26, 2026
  2 p.m.
• Friday, March 27, 2026
  2 p.m.
• Saturday, March 28, 2026
  10 a.m.

Experience artist Tim Youd’s meditative act of retyping novels one keystroke at a time. Over the course of 10 days, Youd continues his 100 Novels Project here at AMFA by retyping Charles Portis’s True Grit amongst the art on view in A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time. The 100 Novels Project is an ongoing performance artwork in which Youd retypes novels from beginning to end in locations that play a central role in the novels. By retyping True Grit in Little Rock – the city where Portis once lived and worked – Youd honors one of Arkansas’s most iconic literary voices, using endurance, focus, and time to reflect on and appreciate the novel’s enduring impact on American identity.