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(or anywhere else, really). CHARLESTON — The portion of Appalachian states living in poverty last year increased by 114,000 people to 13.3 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. But it’s all going swimmingly, isn’t it? That’s what the man tells us, and that’s what we know. Unless, of course, you pay attention. I’m such an [...] William Pierce, Jr., grasped his hip with both hands and tugged with all his strength against the action of the auger that had caught his leg and was pulling his body to bloody pieces. Red Smith locked eyes with him over the stub of an unlit cigar. Pierce screamed without a sound against the deafening roar [...] Study: Mental Illness More Common In Appalachia. Of particular interest, I find, from page 18 of this mammoth report: Barriers to the use of treatment services include social stigma for those who seek care, lack oftransportation, non-recognition of the root causes of substance use behaviors, multi-generationalpatterns of substance abuse behaviors, and erosion of the power of family [...] There are a number of people stopping by today to read yesterday’s post, by the way. Hi. No one’s saying much, though. If you were—ahem—interested in this sort of subject matter, as you seem to be, what kinds of discussions would you like to see here? I’ve told you I’ll be doing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, [...] (originally appeared in Dead Mule) She loves him as only a Christian womancan love a man; crucifies him with love,bears witness to love, kills him with devotion.She is called Jude. She singsJesus Loves Me with a power thatpromises He’d darn-sight better. Her husband leaves at midnight.She turns in her bed, naked & warm,to hear him at [...] Sven Birkerts, in one of his many books or essays—every one is worth your while, by the way; I’ve read them many times in some cases—makes a case that we haven’t really seen a representative literary novel (I’d expand this to other genres too) of the electronic age in the way we might have been [...] Night Train is my main baby, let’s keep that straight. However much it’s ‘my’ journal, I feel constrained, by dint of the stories and poems we’ve published in the past, and our status as a non-profit combined with our incorporation as a quasi-educational institution, to a reasonable facsimile of what people expect to see. Else, [...] |
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