For a certain class of book-reading American -- the type with a taste for deeply reported stories about left-behind parts of the country -- [Beth Macy], the woman running for [the Appalachia-based 6th Congressional District of Virginia], is something of a household name.

I'm about 100 pages into Beth Macy's PAPER GIRL and was thinking, "There are a lot of good threads here for a solid, cutting-edge Democratic campaign" and lo and behold turns out that one person who also thought so was Beth Macy! www.politico.com/news/magazin ...

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-- Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social) Dec 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM