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Thinking About Reading About Appalachia? Keep Looking

July 20, 2024 News Editor 0

It’s been (ahem) an eventful few weeks. We won’t go into it deeply in this space. Just yet. But one thing that brightened the last week or so was the constant stream of people we noted on social media compiling lists — and pointing us at others — where one could read “real books” on Appalachia, “better than the POS one” by the man who is now a vice-presidential hopeful. All right then. Bookriot said […]

GOP Congresswoman’s Reading Request Blunder

December 31, 2019 admin 0

Representative Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) could not have foreseen the furor she would create when she asked, via her web site and Twitter, for reading recommendations for 2020. As a Member of the Education and Labor Committee, I believe passionately in promoting literacy and the power of reading for all ages in all communities. My mother instilled my love of reading as a child, which was further cultivated by my teachers in school. No matter how […]