Ron Rash is one of the Carolina's most beloved authors, known in equal measure for his novels and his short fiction. He's the author of Serena, an award-winning 2008 novel about love and timber in depression-era North Carolina, and Something Rich and Strange, a 2014 collection of stories, and most recently 2020's In the Valley, a collection of stories and novella that follow up on Serena. Rash has won several awards for his writing, has been anthologised multiple times in the Best Short Stories of the year collections, and today is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University.

In this conversation David and Ron chat about the books he loved as a child, the books he reads when he's writing, and much, much more.

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