• Writer Magazine Interview with Lee Smith (pdf file, April, 2009)
• Together We Read (New York Times 2008)
• My Town (New York Times 2008)
• Fiddling for Dollars (New York Times 2008)
• Brushes With Life (New York Times 2009)
• Dancing with the One That Brung You, keynote speech at the Appalachian Heritage Festival, Lincoln Memorial University, 2008
• Showing up for Work, afterword to On Agate Hill
• Lee Smith’s River Ride, Southern Living, July 2003