Vance’s “The Hillbilly Elegy” and much preferred Smarsh. Vance’s book was an interesting memoir, but I think Smarsh was much better at delineating the larger reasons for the dysfunctional outcomes within their families that each author describes. Per Vance, it all comes down to personal ...
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis — that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never be...
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“Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here, this book introduces new ways to consider language, perception, and recovery. It’s a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the world as he knows it. Trip ...
matter, and generally much of the content left me feeling icky every time I picked it up. There are important ideas raised on Appalachian poverty and the foster care system and oxycontin, among other huge and hard themes, but I preferHillbilly ElegyorAll the Pretty Thingsfor similar subject ...
Motorhome Prophecies isn’t as violent as Under the Banner but makes Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy or even Tara Westover’s great Educated: A Memoir look like kid’s stuff. Her journey out of abuse and weirdness is nearly miraculous. She ends up at Harvard, involved in conservative politics, ...
(p. 43). More recently, the film adaptation of J.D. Vance’s memoir,Hillbilly Elegyraised similar questions about how the disconnect between the creators of media and the lived experiences of people from rural, working-class, and/or lower-income backgrounds leads to those lives being distorted...
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The list always offers something intriguing (to me, anyhow), but I’ll just comment on two inclusions: J.D. Vance’sHillbilly elegyjumped in hits the week he was named you-know-who’s Vice-Presidential running mate; and I have no idea why Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler’s gorgeous chi...