Scott mclanahan crapalachia a biography

Scott McClanahan’s Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place has been a staple of contemporary Appalachian literature since it was first published in 2013, and Two Dollar Radio’s New Classics edition is a perfect opportunity to revisit this brief yet powerful book.

As Nico Walker puts it in the new introduction for this edition, “This book still hits.” Despite the crises and changes the world has faced since its original publication, Crapalachia still holds an uncanny ability to draw in readers, pulling us toward a distinctive place and time, to live among and alongside McClanahan’s young troublemakers and mischievous elders.

Sometimes characterized as fiction and sometimes as memoir, Crapalachia fully lives up to its subtitle.

This biography of a place is told in first person by a character named Scott McClanahan, or a version of Scott McClanahan as he was growing up in Danese and