It’s easy to understand why “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 memoir by JD Vance, piqued the interest of the American people. It recycles a narrative America has relied on for a century to sleep soundly ...

Footage from Junior Walker’s Youtube channel documenting surface mines. This shot is Crescent II mine in May 2024, permit S502007. “We’ll show these fascists what a couple a hillbillies can do.” – ...

Vassar and Steele's East and West coast upbringings and shared musical influences come together on one nostalgic track Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

VP candidate J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir told a compelling story about my home region in Appalachia. But it was not the whole story. On Monday, Donald Trump announced his pick for vice ...

This book review of JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” originally appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Living & Arts section on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. There are two very good reasons this year — ...

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance speaks at a campaign rally on July 20. (Evan Vucci/AP) When JD Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy was published in the summer of 2016, it struck a nerve ...

The new movie, based on J.D. Vance's bestselling 2016 memoir, is now available to stream on Netflix Ron Howard's new Netflix film Hillbilly Elegy has critics divided — with some saying it's ...

Parton grew up in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains with her parents and 11 siblings. They lived in a one-bedroom shack with no electricity or running water. Though the singer’s family didn’t have much when ...

Former Obama speechwriter David Litt has been making the media rounds for his new book, It’s Only Drowning, which he has touted as the “Hillbilly Elegy for People Who Hate JD Vance.” His media tour ...

As J.D. Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” surged to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, I was on location in Kentucky filming “Hillbilly” — a documentary that examines the long history of ...