Referenced In

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"Last days of August with Sam in Kentucky."

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"We were a world away from Kentucky, Sam’s land and horses."

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"I had asked myself, shuttling back and forth to Kentucky."

"Vero Beach is in Indian River County, Florida, which has blown up with people moving down permanently from up north or California or Illinois or Kentucky."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"but most were dispatched far away to states whose names we could not wrap our tongues around: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and so on."

Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler

"Tornadoesaresmashinghelloutof Alabama, Kentucky, Teensnsee, and two orthreeotherstates."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"A not‐so‐proud descendant of the Kentucky Mees, one of the first black families to settle in southwest Los Angeles,…"