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Orion Magazine - Creative Economies in the Coal Fields

I GREW UP IN APPALACHIA, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee. ....

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The Bold and Generous Spirit of Lee Smith

Across her fifteen novels among them Appalachian classics and a recent road trip tale set partially in the Florida Keys no one has tapped into Southern truths quite like the Virginia-raised author. Just ask the legion of writers who praise her for guiding their own stories ....

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The Historic Kentucky Floods Were a Waking Nightmare—and They're Only the Beginning

Harrowing flooding in eastern Kentucky offer a window into what climate change will and does look like ....

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Voices from Appalachia on Storytelling, Stereotypes, and the Truth

A novelist interviews Dopesick writer Beth Macy and the author Silas House, who tells him, "I never trust a writer who doesn't doubt themselves" ....

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Pulled from the Flood

After devastating waters wrecked a novelist’s Eastern Kentucky homeland last week, he worked alongside the helpers those who refuse to let the voices of Appalachia go under ....

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