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Dr. Harold Almond published two books of memoirs of his life as a country doctor in Upshur County, West Virginia. His son, Greenbrier Almond, follows up in this book of reminiscences.
In 1976, Lisa Alther rocketed onto the American literary scene with her best-selling novel, Kinflicks, set in her hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee. After four more successful novels, some set in Vermont where she made her home, she published her first non-fiction work, Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors. Her latest book is the third in a two-year span, including another novel, another non-fiction book, Book Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance, and now her first story collection, Stormy Weather and Other Stories. It includes “The Fox Hunt,” originally published in Appalachian Heritage in 2004 and re-printed in our 40th Anniversary issue in 2013.
Although Joseph Anthony now teaches English at Bluegrass Community College in Lexington, Kentucky, he taught for many years at Hazard Community College. This novel follows a couple who, like Joe Anthony and his wife, move from New York to Eastern Kentucky.
The author of this book grew up in southern West Virginia and now teaches at Hamilton College in upstate New York. “Barry exposes the coal industry’s harsh effects on working class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction.” —Ms. Magazine.
The author of this non-fiction book teaches at Morehead State University and has lived in Kentucky for twenty years, seventeen in a lesbian relationship. “The stories she tells are riveting, heartbreaking, infuriating, yet ultimately uplifting.”—Eric Marcus.
Batchelor follows a simple formula—”The Chef,” “The Restaurant,” and “The Recipes”—to provide short run-downs of forty chefs from thirteen Western North Carolina communities. Interspersed are short introductions to ten area farms that supply these chefs. This is a copiously and beautifully illustrated book, attractively laid out—a true joy to hold.
The author of this novel was employed in the waste disposal industry and served as city engineer for Charleston, West Virginia. The setting is rural West Virginia.
Byer is a former North Carolina Poet Laureate who has been honored by the Associated Writing Programs, The Academy of American Poets, the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. “Her poems shine a light that we yearn for here in the darkness of the twenty-first century.” —David Huddle. Byer has lived for decades in Cullowhee, North Carolina, and taught at Western North Carolina University. [End Page 88]
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