Review: Jesse Donaldson on Foxfire’s Appalachia

Novelist Jesse Donaldson considers Foxfire’s Appalachia and the real one.

Stacy Kranitz, Letart, West Virginia, 2015. From As it was Give(n) to Me, a ten-year archive of collected images, text, and objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia, to be published in book form in 2019 by Twin Palms Publisher.

In 1966, a high school English class in Rabun County, Georgia, launched Foxfire, a quarterly magazin…