The writer Carrie Mullins, whose website is here.

Where the beer is fresh. The pizza hot. The music well-tended. And writers read. Richmond, Kentucky.

Writing news galore.

Favorite music blog.

Kingsport soul, such as it is. Pal's Sudden Service. Then. Now. Forever.

The American author David Joy. A beautiful man, comfortable around rusted farm implements.

Still: The Journal. Online. Appalachian. Good. http://www.stilljournal.net

drafthorse: a journal of work and no work. from THE Lincoln Memorial University.

Charles Portis. The Walter Tevis of Arkansas. Author of True Grit, my favorite novel.

Walter Tevis. The Charles Portis of Kentucky. Author of Queen's Gambit, a novel I recommend you read next if you havent already.

Poet, sage, bon vivant Denton Loving.

Bernard King is the man.

Sandy Ballard edits the Appalachian Journal. It comes out of Appalachian State University. If Sandy Ballard ask you to do something, do it. If Sandy Ballard tells you to do something, do it.

Parting The Waters by Taylor Branch. A book about organizing for change, a book about how to be a decent American.