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Topic: Hillbilly Elegy

Margaret Atwood's Unburnable Book, a fireproof edition of her prescient and often banned book The Handmaids Tale is on display at Sothebys in New York City on June 3, 2022. (NGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Handmaid's Tale, 1984 book sales rise

Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks during a campaign rally with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Georgia State University Convocation Center on August 03, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

What's JD Vance's Mountain Dew hang-up?

Ashlie D. Stevens

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) | Glenn Close ("Mamaw") in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

The real crisis in "Hillbilly Elegy"

Republican Senate candidate JD Vance and former President Donald Trump speak at a Save America Rally to support Republican candidates running for state and federal offices in the state at the Covelli Centre during on September 17, 2022 in Youngstown, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

J.D. Vance hates divorce yet loves Trump

Amanda Marcotte

J.D. Vance (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

J.D. Vance grovels before Trump throne

J.D. Vance, author of the book "Hillbilly Elegy," poses for a portrait photograph near the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Vance: "Wokeness" is ruining Gossip Girl

Brad Reed - Raw Story

Rebekah Mercer, J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mercer, Thiel fund J.D. Vance Senate bid

Dr. Michael Ford's office sits closed after he was found guilty on 15 charges of prescription and Medicaid fraud in a remote area of southwestern Virginias coal country where prescription opioids flooded the area decimating communities like Appalachia, Virginia, on Monday July 22, 2019. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Big Pharma needs an Appalachian elegy

HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Glenn Close ("Mamaw”), Amy Adams (“Bev”) (Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

The real stories of "Hillbilly Elegy"

Chauncey DeVega

HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Glenn Close ("Mamaw”), Amy Adams (“Bev”) (Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

Why elites don't "get" Hillbilly Elegy

Lisa R. Pruitt - The Conversation

Amy Adams in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Lacey Terrell/Netflix)

Adams: "Hillbilly" "transcends politics"

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

Glenn Close as Mamaw in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Lacey Terrell/Netflix)

Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy"

Amy Adams in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Lacey Terrell/Netflix)

What critics say about "Hillbilly Elegy"

J.D. Vance, author of the book "Hillbilly Elegy," poses for a portrait photograph near the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post/Getty Images)

J.D. Vance comes out as a "nationalist"

Roger Sollenberger

HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Glenn Close ("Mamaw”), Amy Adams (“Bev”) (Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

Why Hollywood loves "Hillbilly Elegy"

Ashlie D. Stevens

Amy Adams (Getty/Frazer Harrison)

Get ready for "Hillbilly Elegy" Oscars

"Ohio" by Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster)

"Ohio": The "Hillbilly Elegy" of novels

David Masciotra

Roseanne Barr in "Roseanne" (ABC/Adam Rose)

The "Roseanne" revival we really needed

Roseanne Barr on "Roseanne" (ABC/Greg Gayne)

"Roseanne" & the single Rust Belt story

Smoky Mountains in Tennessee (Getty/SeanPavonePhoto)

Drop "Hillbilly Elegy" — read this book

J. D. Vance (Getty/Drew Angerer)

J. D. Vance is not running for Senate

J. D. Vance (Getty/Drew Angerer)

"Hillbilly" author mulling Senate run

(AP/Andrew Harnik/Rick Bowmer/Harper)

Hillbilly sellout

Jared Yates Sexton

David Brooks (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

Brooks on Brexit lessons

Scott Eric Kaufman

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