Letter to the Editor from Elvin Hatch.
"Constructing a Marketable Writer: James Still’s Fictional Persona" by Claude Lafie Crum. "The Persistence of Folly: 40 Years of Gnomon Press, an Interview with Jonathan Greene." "On Being Harriette Arnow’s Son" by Thomas L. Arnow. "The Writer and the Land: Harriette Simpson Arnow and the Genesis of Her Novel Between the Flowers" by Martha Billips.
Poetry by Michael Henson ("My Father's Voice"), Jonathan Greene ("The Art of Revision" and "Biographies of Us All"), Charles A. Swanson ("I Am a Mountain"), Patrick Bizzaro ("In Hostile Climates"), James B. Goode ("Brier Ruminates"), R.D. Biliter ("Fox Hunt"), and Charlotte Matthews ("Country Auction").
Reviews by Kristin Kant (Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains by Al Fritsch and Kristin Johannsen), John Inscoe (Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. Edited by Kevin O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth), Paul Robertson (Country Music Goes to War. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson), Mark Freed (Strings of Life--Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina by Kevin Donleavy), Grace McEntee (Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation by Tammy Horn), Deborah Thompson (The Magic City: Footnotes to the History of Middlesborough, Kentucky, and the Yellow Creek Valley by Ann Dudley Matheny), Rebecca Baird (Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey by Karen Salyer McElmurray).
With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle."
