Hillbilly Elegy star calls JD Vance ‘a cool dude’ five years after playing him - ‘Night Agent’ star said ‘it’s kind of weird’ ...

J.D. Vance's claim to fame was his book, "Hillbilly Elegy ... area is far from the only example of literature that captures Appalachian culture. Such a diverse region warrants a diverse literary ...

"It’s full of untruths, intentionally manipulative stories," said an Appalachian scholar. Here's why the book was so ...

Calloway’s Scotch-Irish settlers are the literal forefathers of J. D. Vance’s Appalachian hillbillies, eulogized in his best-selling memoir. When Calloway describes the personal ...

There is an assortment of artifacts reflecting early writers and their effects on the hillbilly image, as well as artifacts from Knoxville’s 1910 Appalachian Exposition. One case contains a vari ...

Perhaps it is partially because of that long-since established stereotype of Appalachian “hillbillies” that Vance promotes, a demographic which likely seems like the polar opposite of the ...