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Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.

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Carter Sickels

About

Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press), winner of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian fiction. His debut novel The Evening Hour was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and is now streaming. His writing appears in the Atlantic, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Joyland, and Catapult. Carter teaches at Eastern Kentucky University.

Articles

Issue 118, Fall 2022

Hope After "Dopesick"

But running throughout the book is a shared belief that it is important to treat people with opioid use disorder (OUD) with humanity, to dismantle the web of stigma, and to understand addiction as a...

By Carter Sickels
Issue 119, Winter 2022

Glitter, Cowboys, and Tears

Blue eyes glint through his signature domino mask, this one black leather with a curtain of delicate fringe that falls to his chest.

By Carter Sickels
Web Feature

Men Playing Men

I realize I’ve been watching men perform all my life—for each other, for women, for lovers.

By Carter Sickels

THE PRETTIEST STAR

An excerpt from Carter Sickels’s new novel The Prettiest Star . The killer whales are the most misunderstood of the whales. To begin with, although everyone calls them whales, they’re actually...

By Carter Sickels