Scott McClanahan, Appalachian Literary Outsider, on His Harrowing Divorce Book

When you talk to Scott McClanahan, there's a subject that inevitably comes up. It isn't the multiple books he's written or the music he's made or the art over which he obsesses. It's West Virginia, the state he calls home. "I didn't know one single person who made art from this place," he says when talking about his youth to Rolling Stone. "My dad worked in the back of a truck for

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