Casey Parks examines her own life through a mysterious figure from the past
…her mother to battle out their complicated dynamic in an emotional foreground strewn with landmines. Even when the two women aren’t speaking, her mother’s legacy of trauma and her long-term…
Bobby C. Rogers brings depth and richness to his poetry’s West Tennessean setting
…preoccupations of place and character lie within a distinctly Southern past, populated largely with bygone men and women whose daily lives touch on rural images and historical events that are…
Bruce Holsinger discusses The Displacements, a novel of natural disaster
…levelled by natural disaster. For all of their differences in socioeconomic status, these characters learn that their survival requires cooperation. Photo: Stacey Evans No Pollyanna, Holsinger knows that in a…
Ginseng Diggers traces the history of Appalachia’s root and herb trade
…the botanical pharmaceuticals trade, global and domestic, but with special focus on Chinese markets. Manget goes on to chart the rise and eventual decline of Appalachia’s prominence in the botanical…
Unsparing honesty about grief fuels Charles Dodd White’s A Year Without Months
…bound in constant cycles of argumentative, tumultuous conflict, especially with each other. “The real violence between them was in its essential meaninglessness. They battered each other because it was a…
