Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant

March 31, 2026

I will never look at my mail carrier in the same way after reading Stephen Starring Grant’s Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. If you’re like me, you think of them delivering the mail, letters, magazines and...

Hill Women by Cassie Chambers

February 15, 2020

Part memoir, part family history. Whatever you want to call Cassie Chambers’ book, Hill Women, it’s a beautiful story told with love, respect, and pride. While the subtitle is “Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains”,...

What Are You Reading?

February 13, 2020

Thursday! My favorite day of the week. Let’s talk about what we’re reading or what we read in the last week. I’m reading Hill Women by Cassie Chambers. It’s a beautifully written book about the women of Appalachia, told with love and pride by...

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

July 28, 2018

Who would you guess has the best background to write about Appalachia, a writer and historian from East Tennessee with a PhD in public history, or a venture capitalist who wrote his own personal memoir? In What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, historian...

The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb

September 13, 2017

Sharyn McCrumb returns to familiar territory, Appalachia, in The Unquiet Grave, a novel based on an actual trial. Set in West Virginia, in the late 19th century, the story of the Greenbriar Ghost was enough to convict a man of murder. In 1930, James Gardner is a...