Hillbilly Elegy starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close looks exactly like the kind of terrible movie the Oscars love

I can count on one hand how many books I’ve abandoned mid-go, but Hillbilly Elegy is one of them. J.D. Vance’s self-selecting memoir about the “economic anxiety” of his Ohio hometown and Appalachian roots is a collection of personal anecdotes that repackage the myth of the welfare queen for the digi...