“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essay...

From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, ...

It Happened in Kansas features over 25 chapters in Kansas history.  Lively and entertaining, this...

Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs. In this affectionate,sharply insightful book, Sar...

Originally published: New York: Scribner, 2018.

During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical povert...

'Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the...

Parton's broader career -- from singing on the front porch of her family's cabin in the Great Smo...

A perfect companion to Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, this work reveals one woman's experience of ...

Discendente da cinque generazioni di agricoltori, Sarah Smarsh ci introduce alle vicende della su...

La musica country al femminile è da sempre la colonna sonora nella vita delle donne povere d'Amer...

Explores how the music of Dolly Parton and other prominent women country artists has both reflect...

“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essay...

'Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that establ...