Sarah Smarsh

I do highly recommend that you check some of it out.

One of my favorite books about Dolly is She Come by It Natural by Sarah Smarsh.

And then even more toward the scholarly end of the spectrum, I recommend the writing of Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom.

I adore her and her writing.

Yeah, I mean,

I don't know if you've read Sarah Smarsh's book on Dolly from 2020.

Yes, it's excellent, yes.

She comes by

the landscape and to the people.

Um, you know, I was thinking even as you were talking, I listened to Sarah Smarsh speaking at a conference once, and she's also a Kansas writer.

And she was talking about journalism, but she kind of opened by saying, like, "How many of you, wherever you're from, you just feel like the outside perceptions, the way that it's characterized in, in whatever way, are just not quite right?" Like, you think that this place is more than that.

It's more complicated than that.