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A Voice from the Nuevo South

Soon after arriving from Canada to live in the South, I became the first Latina food editor and columnist of a newspaper in North Carolina.

By Sandra Gutierrez

THE NIGERIAN APPALACHIAN REMIX

Nothing I met in Egypt, Kentucky, was like I imagined, except the cliché of rolling hills and craggy mountains. Except the poke, and other ground cover, green. No guns were visible except the...

By John T. Edge & Tunde Wey

REMEMBERING THE BLUES SOCIETY

The Memphis Country Blues Festival had a shoestring start in 1966, organized by the Memphis Country Blues Society, an ad hoc group consisting of counterculture figures, musicians, and fans, including...

By Jay Jennings

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A RECIPE FOR MEMORY

My mother was an instinctive cook. Words and directions did not hold much for her. She was a keen observer. She learned to cook from watching her aunts; her grandmother, Maw; her own mother. She...

By Ronni Lundy

OUR FALL 2016 ISSUE

Highlights from our Fall 2016 issue.

By Oxford American

REINTRODUCING LEE MOSES

From the liner notes to Light in the Attic ’s reissue of the 1971 deep soul classic Time and Place. Lee Moses possessed all the ingredients for a successful career, but after releasing just one...

By Sarah Sweeney

I WAS A WITNESS

It’s a brisk February afternoon in Lexington, Kentucky, and Louis Zoeller Bickett II and I are sitting in his office, which is lined with 500 binders. A few shelves of author-signed books, all of...

By Laura Relyea and Guy Mendes

WIDENING THE FIELD

We now turn the Notebook over to our summer interns, who leave us today. Thank you for all your hard work! May you never again see a straight quote without flinching.

By Oxford American

HARLAN COUNTY, HOME

“My father was a coal miner for thirty-five years and died of black lung,” Howard told me, while resting from the heat and overhead brushstrokes of the outdoor mural he’s working on for a local food...

By Noah Gallagher Shannon

THE LOST COSMONAUT

Contemporary fiction writers can play hard for the joke, as if writing to a laugh-track, but Joy Williams’s humor is darker, subtler, more in line with the humor of Faulkner or Isaac Babel: bracing,...

By Matthew Neill Null

SOMETHING MADE REAL

A conversation with Manuel Gonzales. “Magical and fantastical is what I grew up on—that and horror and the science-fictional and the soap operatic worlds of comic books—and to me it feels like a...

By Ada Limón

O, DEATH

Besides the fact that white doves are rare in East Kentucky (unless they are being released from wire cages at your mine-site nuptials), this dove sent a cold chill across Cowan because he’d arrived...

By Rebecca Gayle Howell

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