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In the Mid-South Appalachians, life’s lessons used to come from honky tonk songs and now they come from wrestle mania, but the messages hardly change at all.
John Lingan has written for the Oxford American, Atlantic, BuzzFeed, the Baffler, Slate, the New Republic, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other places. He lives in Maryland. He spent four years reporting and writing Homeplace, his first book.