Filmmaker Hutcheson brings the subject of his documentary The Last One to the page in this touching tribute to Popcorn Sutton, “an archetypal mountain moonshiner.” Mixing memories, research, interviews, and photographs, Hutcheson offers essays and transcripts of Sutton’s monologues. A section of interviews features Sutton sharing memories of dispatching a school bus bully with a knife his father gave him for the purpose, recounting his family getting their first refrigerator (“I thought that was somethin’, by god”), explaining where his nickname came from (he once demolished a coin-operated popcorn machine that ate his dime), and sharing plenty of adventures in moonshining, as when he had to use his product to fill an empty gas tank for a quick getaway. “Mountain Talk: Translation & Transcription,” meanwhile, sees Hutcheson explain the idiosyncrasies of Appalachian language and outline what was lost in transcribing Sutton’s speech, and “Our Contemporary Ancestors: The Hillbilly In Hindsight” traces backcountry settlers—including Sutton himself—as “the subject of caricature.” On top of an empathic portrait of Sutton’s life (and death by suicide in 2009), readers will learn lots of fast facts about moonshine—such as how it was prized during Prohibition not only for its relative availability but for its high quality. Fans of Hutcheson’s films will find much to appreciate here. (Self-published)