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"At the time I inherited the editorship of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel I had a talk with its founding editor, Jim Webb. He said something along the lines of wanting the literature in PMS&G, like the quarry it was named after, to be 'gritty'. By this I think he meant he wanted it to have all the texture of Appalachian culture; that it not be a homogenized or monocultural version of things; that it reflect both the seriousness and the playfulness of the region; that it be grittily local even as it reflected the various extents of the thirteen-state sprawl of Appalachia; that it cover the urban and rural, the academic and popular, and that it not turn its attention away from the pressing issues and judgments that must be made" --from the introduction by Richard Hague.