Content Categorized ‘Nonfiction’

After the death of a childhood acquaintance, a writer contemplates poverty, violence, and the culture of her hometown, examining her own escape from it, and the lives of those who stayed.

On the shores of a suburban lake, a poet and essayist walks the line between decaying industry and remnant wildness, trying to transform the language she has for these landscapes.

A transplanted Hoosier sends missives from his polling place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; the Cracker Barrel; and the ice-mulched peony beds of the South.

Traveling into the heart of coal country along with her friend and collaborator, Kelley Libby, a Virginia writer documents time spent with coal miner, Regular Baptist preacher, and renowned singer Frank Newsome, and tracks changes in her own thinking about her state’s environment and how people interact with it.