William Goyen: Texas’ Literary Rebel by Randall Ivey
We are honored to be able to publish this fine essay by Randall Ivey, well-known novelist and essayist, on the once-famous Texas writer, William Goyen.
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Last Train to Dixie, a collection of essays by Jack Trotter, was published last year by Shotwell Publishing, a Southern press presided over by the grand panjandrum of Southern historiography, Clyde Wilson.
Why you should go to South Carolina this summer
I recently described Dr. Clyde Wilson as one of the most important figures in my intellectual formation about true American history. While I met him first at a Rockford Institute event, it was at four different Abbeville Institute events that I got to hear his lectures and have many more conversations and meals with him and other unrepentant unreconstructeds. I think you might enjoy not just his company, but that of our namesake, Dr. Thomas Fleming, this summer in South Carolina. Dr. Donald Livingston, the creator and driving force behind the Abbeville Institute, has put together a great series of talks this year,...
The indefatigable Dr. Clyde Wilson
I was in my late 20s when I first met Dr. Clyde Wilson at a Rockford Institute event. If you’ve ever had the privilege of meeting Dr. Wilson and listening to that singular gravelly voice, you’ve known learning and gentility bound together with a ready smile, no matter how curmudgeonly he might be in other fora. I remember sitting on a porch with him on Johns Island, South Carolina, at my first Abbeville Institute event (I would go on to attend four more). I had a question related to what I then referred to as the “Battle of Antietam” (my yankee-addled...
