To celebrate the annual meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association, all of West Virginia University Press’s new and recent books about Appalachia are 30% off with free shipping through April 30, 2022. This discount applies to paperback editions (and, in the case of African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry, jacketed cloth).
Our exhibit at the ASA meeting will feature display copies for perusal, with all sales handled online at our website. Just use code ASA22WVUP30 at checkout. WVU Press’s sale is open to all, regardless of whether you’re attending the conference.
Discounted titles are:
12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
The Appalachians: America’s First and Last Frontier
A Union for Applachian Healthcare Workers
Beyond The Good Earth: Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck
Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World
Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America
The Climb from Salt Lick: A Memoir of Appalachia
Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond
Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia
Fifty Cents and a Box Top: The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills
Governing the Wind Energy Commons: Renewable Energy and Community Development
The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
Heeding the Call: A Study of Denise Giardina’s Novels
I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis
The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory
Modern Moonshine: The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century
Monsters in Appalachia: Stories
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon
Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene
Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks
No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster
The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture: Expression, Art, and Politics in the Age of Addiction
On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
Perfect Dirt: And Other Things I’ve Gotten Wrong
The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric
Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law
The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
Rock Climbing in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969–1979
Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia
The Sound of Holding Your Breath
Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other
Wheeling’s Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town
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