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A Man and His Mandolin

…own band. He was beloved, especially by those he befriended at the beginning of their careers, like Marty Stuart and Jim Lauderdale. He was profoundly influential, even if the average…

Father Knows Best

…way. He was a newcomer to an established lineup. He was decades younger than Monroe but also younger than the rest of the Blue Grass Boys. He was also a…

Storytellers with Loud Guitars

miracle, really — they didn’t just do what the world was telling them to do and bag it. How many other bands would have? How many other potentially great bands…

Slow Violence, Then and Now

…Agent Orange. Slow violence is pertinent to environmental justice because the incremental unfolding of threats to human and environmental health is experienced unequally by wealthy and impoverished communities. Time can…

As Real as They Are Magical

…mythical creatures abound, as human characters struggle to understand the unknown and, often, each other. In multiple stories, young believers try to convince fearful authority figures to embrace the supernatural.

The Collateral Consequences of Hubris

…functioning according to two fundamentally different perceptions of reality. Early on, I realized that my story was really about two distinct worlds — alternate realities, if you will. My narrator,…

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