Grace Pettis

Grace Pettis perfectly captures the loneliness and desperation of a small town in Abilene. 

http://www.guidelive.com/music/2016/01/20/one-song-grace-pettis-evokes-small-town-desperation-abilene

This is folk but is it really all that different from Country Western music?


http://www.gracepettis.com/

Journalist to publish a book about social media's effect on teenage girls

Nancy Jo Sales to publish a book (Knopf) about teenage girls and social media. AMERICAN GIRLS: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers will be released February 2016.

Many of these type of books have been published recently.  Sales has spent the last 30 months interviewing 200 teenagers.