In addition to Can A Democrat Get into Heaven? other published essays include "The R Word:  What's So Funny (And Not So Funny) About Redneck Jokes" in Back Talk:  Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes, and "Piddlin'" in Bloodroot:  Appalachian Women Writers' Reflections on Place, both from the University Press of Kentucky.  .

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Can a

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get into

Heaven?

Politics, Religion & Other Things You Ain't Supposed to Talk About

This collection of Shelby's columns includes sections on politics ("You Scratch My Money, I'll Scratch Yours"), religion ("The Apostle Paul Never Said Anything about Women Keeping Silent in the Newspaper"), everyday life ("Finding the Mundane in the Everyday"), and local tales and legends ("We're Poor But We've Got Stories"), along with a foreword by Gurney Norman and an afterword by Jamie Johnson.  By turns controversial and funny, contemporary and down-home,

Can A Democrat Get into Heaven? collects the best of Shelby's popular newspaper columns from

The Lexington

Herald-Leader,

The Manchester Enterprise and other newspapers.