Bestselling Appalachian Author Seeks Office: An Anti-Vance

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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.

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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

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FWIW: The Roanoke Times is a serious good paper. Not afraid at all to tackle local issues, and not just small-city boosterism.

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-30 09:23 AM | Reply

Running an an anti-JD Vance candidate is probably a good idea.

The Hillbilly Hypocrite is about as popular as an inflamed gumboil.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-30 09:32 AM | Reply

The anti-Vance. Someone who uses a couch for sitting.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-30 06:58 PM | Reply

So, her main shtick seems to be along the lines of ~I am not like VP Vance.~

Wow, that seems to be quite damning for VP Vance's political ambitions going forward.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-01 01:39 AM | Reply

Misogyny is so embedded into our American culture, into the many fundamentalist religions like Catholicism, Mormonism, much of the Baptist world, that one can only hope we are heading to a future where gender is as relevant as shoe size...
I so wish her well.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-01 08:20 AM | Reply