(interviews, reviews, and press organized roughly in chronological order)
Bookforum. “The Hills Have Lies,” by Frank Guan
All Things Considered. “Historian Makes Case for ‘What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.’”
New Yorker. “The New Old Politics of the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
New York Times. “Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book.”
Guernica. “Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country,” by Regan Penaluna
The Outline. “Appalachia Deserves Better than J.D. Vance,” by Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Los Angeles Times. “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia,” by Leah Hampton
Salon. “Put Down Hillbilly Elegy and Read this Book Instead,” by Erin Keane
The AV Club. “What are you reading this month (August)?” by Laura Adamczyk, Laura M.Browning, and Caitlin Penzey-Moog
New Republic. “The Truth About Appalachia,” by Sarah Jones
On the Media. “Appalachia Beyond Coal.”
Lit Hub. “Is the Rust Belt Ruined or in a Renaissance?” by Amanda Arnold
Booktimist. “Hope and Contradictions in Appalachia,” by Travis Stimeling
New York Review of Books. “Left Behind,” by Nancy Isenberg
Scalawag. “Telling Tales: How the Media Fails Appalachia,” by Rachel Garringer
Daily Yonder. “New Book on Appalachia Takes JD Vance to the Woodshed,” by Jim Branscome
Creative Independent. “Writing History in the Present Tense,” by Kim Kelly
The 1a. “Elegies and Effigies: Who Speaks for Appalachia?”
der Freitag. “Wohnwagen, Inzucht,” by Peter Kuras
The Roanoke Times. “Did You Read Hillbilly Elegy? If So, Read this Rebuttal,” by Wayne Yancey
Klassenkampen. “Bak Fattigdomsbildet,” by Carline Tromp
NPR Embedded. “Coal Stories.”
The Nation. “Can Local Food Help Appalachia Build a Post-Coal Future?” by Sarah Jones
On the Media. “New Strides in West Virginia’s Old Labor Movement.”
New Books Network. “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.”
Off-Kilter. “The Pros and Cons of the West Virginia Strike Deal.”
Majority Report. “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.”
Parts Unknown: West Virginia. “Wild, Wonderful, and Misunderstood,” by Anna Patrick
WMMT Mountain Talk. “Ethical Reporting in Appalachia.”
WMFA. “Elizabeth Catte,” by Courtney Balestier
Southern Foodways Alliance. “Salesmanship and Stereotypes in Appalachia.”
Boston NPR (WBUR). “A Year in Books: Taking a Look at the Top Titles of 2018.”
Buzzfeed. “35 Books Librarians Have Recently Loved.”
Socialist Worker. “Educators Tell the Story of #55Strong,” by Ryan Powers.
Slate. “Raise Hell and Eat Cornbread, Comrades,” by Leigh Ann Carey
The Dig. “The Problem with the Problem with Appalachia.”
Mother Jones. “Here are our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018.”
Garden & Gun. “Best Books of 2018.”
Kentucky Herald-Leader. “A truer voice on obstacles, hope for Appalachia,” by Ron Formisano
LA Times. “8 books you should read instead of Hillbilly Elegy,” by Lorraine Berry
Time Magazine. “What to Know About Hillbilly Elegy as the Movie Adaptation Hits Netflix,” by Annabel Gutterman
Kirkus. Pure America (starred review).
Publishers Weekly. Pure America (starred review).
Boston Review. “The Logic of Eugenics Still Haunts Virginia,” by Ellen Wayland-Smith
Sara Beth West. “On Historical Sins and Elizabeth Catte’s Pure America,” by Sara Beth West
Sara Beth West. “An Interview with Elizabeth Catte,” by Sara Beth West
Kirkus. “Small Books that Shine a Big Light,” by Tom Beer
Shelf Life. “Q&A with Shelf Life Author Elizabeth Catte,” by Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginian-Pilot. “A Look at Virginia’s Eugenics Movement,” by Denise Watson
Salon. “Pure America author Elizabeth Catte sees the shadow of eugenics…” by Mary Elizabeth
Williams
Scalawag. “Pure America: Eugenics Past and Present,” by Adam Willems
The National Book Review. “5 Hot Books.”
Southern Review of Books. “Pure America,” by Lacey Lyons
Wall Street Journal. “Pure America Review: Eugenics Past and Present,” by Barbara Spindel
LA Review of Books. “No Hedging: On Elizabeth Catte’s Pure America,” by Anna Aguiar Kosicki
The New Republic. “The Chilling Persistence of Eugenics,” by Chris Lehmann
Nursing Clio. “Containment and Control, Not Care or Cure” by Sarah Calise
Christian Century. “A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics” by Chris Hammer
Publishers Weekly. “Best books of 2021”
Washington Post. “Britney Spears, Carrie Buck…” by Gillian Brockell
Wall Street Journal. “Who read what in 2022”
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