At the Risk Management Playground: A Conversation with Tucker Leighty-Phillips
I guess it is labeled as a story collection. So they’re all—for the sake of categorization—they’re short stories, but I don’t know. Some of them were published as prose poems, and I think that letting them both be categorized and also evasive of categorization is kind of cool.
Interrupting the Monologue: On Nicholas Stump's "Remaking Appalachia"
A sacrifice zone is a wasted place, or a place deemed worth wasting.
Interrupting the Myth: On Elizabeth Catte's "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia"
It is impossible to paint a complete portrait of any portion of reality, whether it be a group of people or a region. But that doesn’t stop people from both doing so and making impactful decisions based on these portraits.