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Promoting “Drifting Into Darkness” in North Carolina: Back in the Tar Heel State

by Mark Pinsky | Jul 6, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain

After a brief rest in Durham following our return from Alabama, I headed west to North Carolina to promote my latest book, Drifting Into Darkness, as well as the updated, paperback edition of Met Her on the Mountain. My First Stop: Greensboro The first stop was...

My Alabama Book Tour for “Drifting Into Darkness”

by Mark Pinsky | Jun 17, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness

We completed my Alabama book tour — no banjo on our knee, but Oh Suzanne (La Rosa) and the whole NewSouth Books crew (Randall, Lisa, Mike) have made us feel welcome for the official Montgomery launch of Drifting into Darkness: Murder, Madness, Suicide and a Death...

The Writer as Sleuth

by Mark Pinsky | May 31, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain

After spending half a century reporting on murder, it’s probably not surprising that I don’t read many true crime books for enjoyment and escape. I think it’s because I’ve spent so long covering the dark side so closely, without the reader’s luxury of being able to...

“To See Ourselves as Others See Us”: Appalachian Women and Fighting Back (Part 3)

by Mark Pinsky | May 24, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain

In the second half of Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South, author and University of Georgia professor John Inscoe pivots to the portrayal of Appalachian women on the big and small screen. In earlier films, Appalachian women – often older...

“To See Ourselves as Others See Us”: Race and Racism in the Southern Mountains (Part 2)

by Mark Pinsky | May 17, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain

In Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South, author John C. Inscoe writes that he was pleasantly surprised when he taught a course at the University of Georgia, showing and discussing a dozen films about race and racism in the Southern...

“To See Ourselves as Others See Us”: The Southern Appalachians on the Screen (Part 1)

by Mark Pinsky | May 10, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain

From Tobacco Road to Deliverance and, in this century, from District 12 in The Hunger Games to the lame screen version of J.D. Vance’s simplistic, self-serving Hillbilly Elegy, the people of the Southern Appalachians have often been ill-served by American popular...
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