Apr 19 Arts and Culture ‘Hillbilly Noir’: New Books Explore Kentucky’s Drug Trade There is the Kentucky we often see in literature: a reverence for the pastoral landscape and for folksy wisdom, for majestic horses and for the quiet secrets buried deep in the bluegrass and in the mountains. But new books by Kirby Gann and James Higdon dig deep inside the state’s drug trade to turn that […] By Erin Keane Apr 19 Arts and Culture ‘Hillbilly Noir’: New Books Explore Kentucky’s Drug Trade Erin Keane