I teach writing and rhetoric at Penn State University, University Park. My first book is not my first time writing, but it is my first venture outside academia. Hammer to Hypertext builds on research from the past 10 years of my life. Not to mention, I have been witnessing the problems of Northern Appalachia since I was a child. I have lived in Central Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, and the Baltimore/DC area.
Northern Appalachia is an inspiring concept. It has a glorious past, a tepid present, and a future full of potential. It is blanketed in carbon resources. It is rife with social and economic problems. Northern Appalachia was once the foundation of American prosperity. The region may rise again.
I am currently writing a book that engages modern problems of truth. "Post-truth" had its surge after the 2016 Presidential election. But many questions were never answered - perhaps because we all got used to the new normal. I re-engage the problems of truth and connect those problems to modern issues of mental health, personal disengagement, and community decay. There are sensible but difficult ways to help ourselves, our community, and our country.
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JEGood@outlook.com
