Economic Problem of the Southeast

The remains of the Dutch-owned American ENKA plant cover the land in Lowland, Tennessee, like a steel skeleton picked clean.

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Three Cities, One Address

My essay “The Bookstore Time Forgot” appears in the current issue of Frontier Magazine. It tells Nashville’s story through Elder’s, Tennessee’s oldest…

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October 2025

Three Hundred Twenty-Two Pages: Jesse Stuart at Vanderbilt

In early summer 1931, Jesse Stuart stood in the Greenup National Bank with empty pockets and a failed tobacco crop behind him.

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Virginia’s Cargo: Culture Carried West

A Review and Bibliography

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September 2025

M.E. Bradford: An Interview

“M.E. Bradford, Professor of Politics and Literature at the University of Dallas, is generally regarded as the most important philosopher the South has…

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August 2025

Until I Became a Father: The Children’s Bookshelf

I tossed out a question on X: Can you recommend any children’s books about the Permanent Things?

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From the Archives: A 1983 Interview with Andrew Lytle

I’m currently working on an essay for an actual magazine and happened upon the March 1984 issue of Nashville! magazine.

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July 2025

South Bound: LSU Press II, The Donald R. Ellegood Years (1954-1963)

Book Publishers in the South 3

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June 2025

Between Aquinas and the Agrarians: An Interview with Southern Scholar Marion Montgomery

This interview between Professor Marion Montgomery (1925-2011) and Dr.

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Harvest of Oddities

June 2025

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May 2025

Southern Issues 3: The South, 1958

National Review 1958-03-08

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From the Shelves: John Tyree Fain

The student of the Southern Agrarians, if he keeps at it long enough, will find himself circling the same names.

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