Fall 2018

Interview: Filmmaker Sally Rubin

Interview: Filmmaker Sally Rubin

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Fall 2018, Issues ♦
hillbilly, the new documentary film directed by Sally Rubin and Ashley York, is an examination of images and stereotypes about Appalachia and its people. The film works to combat stereotypes of Appalachia as a homogeneous region, using the 2016 presidential election as a window for examining how the region is…
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Not All That Much

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Fall 2018, Issues ♦
It wasn’t all that much, you might say, nothing to write home about, just a heavy green floor of ground cedar and springy peat littered with reindeer moss and lichened stones, here and there evidence of flying squirrels, muddy punctures in the cloth of the moss, and coyotes, their ropey,…
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Letters to Asylum

Letters to Asylum

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1. August 17, 1960 Dear Sir: The fall rages on with no regard for grieving mothers. We are lonesome on this hill without her. Everybody cries. Soon we’ll have blood red leaves scattered across the pastures. Regarding my daughter, how is she getting along? It’s so hot the dogs’ tongues…
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Fantasy Worlds

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When I was in high school, my favorite actress was Katharine Hepburn. She wore those man-style trousers, and with her neatly coiffed hair she was the perfect mix of tomboy and girly girl. She had the most unusual voice; it was not so pleasing to the ear and very nasal.…
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The Elk

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after “The White Horse” by Yasunari Kawabata In the low light of the gloaming he felt the pulse of the late evening in the cutting wind. It broke around the branches and tree trunks as it slid down the mountainside into the valley where he found himself standing, his knees aching.…
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Praxis

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Fall 2018, Issues ♦
The soil is blackened with years of the north farm’s manure. Speckled green lifts from the unseen             white flecks of lettuce             seed sown weeks earlier. Faith. Hope. Charity. The large words of religion          …
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