Reviews
HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture by J. D. Vance (Harper, 2016)
Perhaps in part because I live at the foot of the Appalachians and occasionally teach the region’s literature, I was eager to read J. D. Vance’s best-selling Hillbilly Elegy. And I’ll admit that my enthusiasm was amplified by Vance’s appearances … Continue reading
ALLEGHENY FRONT by Matthew Neill Null
Matthew Neill Null, recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, among other accolades, follows up his novel Honey from the Lion (2015) with a collection of short stories entitled Allegheny Front (2016). Though his time is now split between Provincetown, … Continue reading
HARD LINES: Rough South Poetry
Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry. Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright, editors. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. Editor William Wright introduces this collection of “rough southern poetry,” two hundred poems by sixty contemporary poets, in this way: As … Continue reading