Yesterday, a North Carolina regulator posted Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC's Clean Water Act Section 401 application for Southgate, a proposed methane gas pipeline.

Read our statement with @sierraclub.org and @7directionsof.bsky.social.

Check out Hillbillies Need no Elegy by
@meredithmccarroll.bsky.social and Appalachian Reckoning, edited by McCarroll & Anthony Harkins
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Every time I go to my local coffee shop and pay, I get a text saying that I earned a star. And every time, I am completely surprised. Like, "Oh! I got a text!" Every time.

As the incoming Trump administration prepares to round up, detain & deport immigrants on a colossal scale, @kshaheen.bsky.social @lisang.bsky.social @faisalalyafai.bsky.social & I debate whether immigration is a “real” issue, on the @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast 🎧

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwWw...

Best books for an awakening 19 year old thinking about anti-capitalism and particularly excited by Fred Hampton?

Recently joined a writing accountability group and have been shocked by how much I got down on the page. It isn’t all perfect, but it is a draft. Anyone else do anything like this?

New piece on the changing planet and flooding at @bittersouth.bsky.social

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I’ve been a super fan of Percival Everett for years, and it feels like my team won the World Series today. Here’s a piece drawn from my dissertation on Everett. Thanks to @newlinesmag.bsky.social for putting it out in the world.

"There's no such thing as a born writer. It's a skill you've got to learn, just like learning how to be a bricklayer or a carpenter." ~ Larry Brown

What is the appropriate celebration for when you complete a draft of a whole freaking book, but you know too much to celebrate fully because it is only a draft and there is so much work ahead? I'm thinking something between a glass of bourbon and a lollipop?

Honored to have the chance to write an introduction to Deep Ruts by @julieraepowers --a stunning and important book that complicates ways of thinking about gender, Appalachia, and family. Pre-order below.

www.julieraepowers.com/shop/deepruts

Proud to be in such good company in this new issue of Still.
Check out my review of @davidjoy.bsky.social latest novel there. www.stilljournal.net/bookreview-m...

I feel like I walked tentatively into a party, worried I would be the only one there, and every person I see is either someone I know or someone I want to know. Eager to see if we can keep some of the magic of that other place over here on Bluesky.