M. Lynne Squires Urban Appalachian Author

Hello, I’m Lynne

an urban Appalachian author writing about life at Mid-Century and beyond, food and recipes, writing craft, and more recently fiction stories that give flight to the stories in my head.

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Lynne’s Books

Letters to My Son: Reflections of Urban Appalachia at Mid Century

Letters to My Son: Reflections of Urban Appalachia at Mid Century

Breaching the Chrysler Building

Breaching the Chrysler Building

Mid-Century Recipes from Cocktails to Comfort Food

Mid-Century Recipes from Cocktails to Comfort Food

Writers on Writing: Daily Inspiration for Writers

Writers on Writing: Daily Inspiration for Writers

The View From My Cup: Musings of a (Coffee) Drinker

The View From My Cup: Musings of a (Coffee) Drinker

Looking Back at Charleston

Looking Back at Charleston

Praise for Letters to My Son – Reflections on Urban Appalachia at Mid-Century: “This little gem nostalgically reveals the other side of growing up in Appalachia – the urban side. It’s a story worth reading.”

— Carter Taylor Seaton

“No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

— Yoda

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

— Margaret Chittenden

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Latest Blogs

The View From My Cup…Comics

The View From My Cup…Comics

The view from my cup…comic pages. It has been years since I regularly read the comics in the newspaper. Probably since Calvin and Hobbes went away. That was December 31, 1995. On the first day of...

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The View From My Cup – Things Gone

The View From My Cup – Things Gone

The view from my cup…things I don't see anymore. Now and again, I think of something I haven't seen for quite a while. As in, not for years, and in some cases decades. Take, for instance, carhop...

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