"Sometimes a student will ask what it’s like in Appalachia. They’ll look at my bookshelves or the movie posters hanging on the wall. They’ll sometimes mention what they’ve heard on the radio or seen on TV. They’ll mention J.D. Vance or the MTV reality show Buckwild. Is it true, they wonder?"
Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay excerpted from the book.
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