An interview with the poet, writer, translator and visual artist Jesse Lee Kercheval on the narrative illustrations in her graphic memoir.
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“The Witch’s Daughter” a Memoir Balancing Darkness with the Light of Recovery
Acclaimed indie musician and songwriter Orenda Fink draws readers in with insight to her healing.
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“Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging”: Life-, Age-, and Art-Affirming Manifestos
A review of “Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging,” edited by Jay Lamar and Jennifer Horne with Wendy Reed and Lamar Jackson.
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“Beginning Again”: Katrina Powell on What Oral Histories Tell Us About Appalachia
An interview with Katrina Powell about “Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia.”
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“Attic” is Full of Treasures
The posthumous paperback from William Gay, “Stories from the Attic,” is a masterful collection of narratives, memoirs, and musings.
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A Wild Whatever in “Women We Buried, Women We Burned”
Rachel Louise Snyder’s memoir, “Women We Buried, Women We Burned,” is about grief and its reverberations, but also about re-making.
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Native Woman Looks Back to Move Forward
Leah Myers’ has structured her memoir as a totem pole, carving into history the stories of the three generations before her.
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History Is Both Personal and Current in “Liberty Street”
An interview with Jason K. Friedman on “Liberty Street.”
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Appreciating the Foodways and Resilience of Appalachia in “Hungry Roots”
In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre examine the many ways that food sends messages about the complicated nature of regional resilience. Their work fills an important gap in recent scholarship about the region because the authors incorporate fieldwork methodology to offer new insights in both…
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Past and Present Are Interconnected in “The Eighth Moon”
Jennifer Kabat’s memoir, “The Eighth Moon,” seeks to make sense of family, politics, and land today through the lens of the past.
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