Essential Information
The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, Limited First Edition
is a limited edition of 3000 full color, hardcover books.
All books are signed and numbered.
social promotion resources
synergy
An Emmy award-winning documentary on Popcorn Sutton released in 2009, a cult classic video with Sutton made in 2002, and a biographical film on Sutton released in 2014 remain popular and in distribution. The Last One (2009) and This is the Last Run of Likker I'll Ever Make (2002) are currently streaming on a major platform and available on DVD. A Hell of a Life (2014) is currently available on DVD.
A collection of interviews with Sutton, designed as a companion to The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, is currently available on CD (audio only) or DVD: Living History—The Popcorn Sutton Interviews
reviews & testimonials
Those interested in Appalachian history and culture would do well to spend time with this book. Popcorn's wit, jokes and indelible way of speaking offers readers a better understanding of how the people of the region survived when outside forces came to exploit, and when neighbors, friends and family began to leave.
— Timothy Lydon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The definitive biography of a famous Appalachian moonshiner ... its beautiful layouts and glossy paper will make it work as a coffee table book and a keepsake.
— Foreword Reviews
The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton is an inherently fascinating read and certain to be an immediately welcome and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists of anyone with an interest in American moonshine history and traditions, as well as community, college, and university library Contemporary American Biography collections.
— Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch
From these pages we come to know a man who would spend his last dime on a china set for his wife, but who would just as quickly pull a jackknife from his pocket and slit your throat if you crossed him. There is the humor and there is the horror. The good walks hand in hand with the bad. Hutcheson does a fine job of capturing this duality. And while it would’ve been easy to mythologize a character like Popcorn, the author does not pander. This book paints Sutton as a man fully human and flawed, a good friend and a bad father, a foul-mouthed romantic with a knack for copper and corn. Thanks to that honesty, we not only get one man’s story but an insight into something greater. In his life, we see the lives of others. In his words, we hear what came before.
— David Joy, author of Where All Light Tends to Go, The Weight of This World, and When These Mountains Burn.