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...
by Mark Pinsky | Mar 29, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Somehow, I missed Vicki Lane’s lyrically written historical novel, And the Crows Took Their Eyes, when it was published in 2020. I should have known better. I enjoyed all of her previous Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mystery Series, set in modern Madison County. ...
by Mark Pinsky | Mar 22, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain
Today, I want to share my recent review of Devil House, a new thriller about a true crime author who takes on a real murder and tries to use his own investigative skills to solve it. This idea is not as far-fetched as it might seem. In fact, the novel’s premise...
