“When she was young the river only ever seemed to spill over with promise.”
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Writers Association of Northern Appalachian Celebrating Region’s Literary Renaissance with 6th Annual Conference in Wheeling, West Virginia, October 16 and 17.
“But poor people’s stories don’t get written down either… If I don’t tell their story, no one will.”
“Dolly’s voice is in the pantheon for me, right there with Aretha and Whitney and Maria Callas.”
“As a writer, and especially as a writer of horror, I find it important to remember that we’re subject to place in ways we’d rather not be.”
“America cannot admit to abusing Appalachia without losing the fantasy of being good. Therefore, America must maintain the narrative that we deserve our suffering even as the bodies accumulate.”
“Burns grew up at the actual wake of the steel industry. This was the sliding out time, the period after the rug had long been pulled, but everybody was still looking for it.”
What coal disaster memorials say about a changing Appalachia
