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David Joy’s Appalachian Heritage Playlist

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David Joy‘s debut novel Where All the Light Tends to Go hit the shelves earlier this month. To mark its publication, he has curated a playlist of songs that have inspired and influenced his writing for Appalachian Heritage readers to enjoy. Happy listening.

Winter 2015 Editor’s Note

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Winter 2015 ♦

Editor's Note

In the dead of winter, sunlight is often in short supply, appearing without warning, only to soon disappear again behind a mass of grey clouds. Many of us can’t help but walk around downcast, wearing what Shakespeare called a “February face” in Much Ado About Nothing—“So full of frost, of…

Interview: David Joy

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Interview

David Joy is only thirty-one, but come March, this North Carolina writer will see his first novel, Where All the Light Tends to Go, published by Putnam. The book, a gritty tale of “a young man seeking redemption,” is highly anticipated and has garnered advance praise from the likes of…

Fall 2014 Editor’s Note

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Fall 2014 ♦

Editor's Note

In his poem “Digging,” the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney depicts a writer at his desk, a pen resting “Between my finger and my thumb,” ready to begin his day’s work. But the narrator becomes distracted by the sound of a spade striking gravel, and he looks out to find his father’s “straining rump among the…

Summer 2014 Editor’s Note

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Summer 2014 ♦

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At the beginning of the year, one of my dear friends, whom I believe to be one of the best readers I know, started a Facebook campaign. Each day she collects a book—driving to purchase one from a bookshop in nearby Owensboro, ordering one online, or culling one from her…

Spring 2014 Editor’s Note

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Spring 2014 ♦

Editor's Note

In 1953, William Styron was riding high on the success of his debut novel, Lie Down in Darkness, which had been published two years earlier to great acclaim. He was just twenty-eight when he sat down with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton at a café on the Boulevard Montparnasse in…

Winter 2014 Editor’s Note

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Winter 2014 ♦

Editor's Note

Nine years ago, my paternal grandmother was in the final weeks of her life. I joined my family in keeping vigil back in southeastern Kentucky as often as I could, making the eight-hour drive down Interstate 81 or flying to nearby Knoxville, Tennessee, from my then home in Washington, D.C.…