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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Mark Pinsky | Apr 14, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Celebrating the New Edition of Met Her on the Mountain After meeting so many people in Madison County who have become good friends over the years, whenever I go back there, a part of me feels like I am coming home. That was true recently when I returned for a...
