“Saving the Wild South”: Preserving Biodiversity in the Midst of a Changing Environment

A review of Georgann Eubanks’ book, “Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction.”

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“The Gods of Green County”: Faith, Community and Sanity in the Depression-Era South

A review of Mary Elizabeth Pope’s book, “The Gods of Green County.”

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“Reservation Dogs”: Prowling a Landscape of Love and Loss

“Reservation Dogs” is a hilarious, bittersweet sitcom following the adventures and life lessons of the titular gang of adolescent petty criminals.

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“Drowned Town” Explores the Connection Between People and the Land

Jayne Moore Waldrop’s “Drowned Town” makes no qualms about how much value people put into a sense of place.

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Indefinable and Great, Joanna Pearson’s “Now You Know It All”

A review of Joanna Pearson’s “Now You Know It All: Stories”

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Facing the Music: The Ballad of North Carolina’s One-man Crime Wave

A review of Trevor McKenzie’s book, “Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer Behind the Appalachian Ballads.”

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“Late City” Asks If It’s Ever Too Late For Redemption

Imagine Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, only instead of being visited each night by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, you are visited by God, just one night, on the eve of your death. Instead of seeing what is or what will be, you are exclusively revisiting moments from the past as if…

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