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| Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:35AM | | | | The Future of Texas Literature | Tags: Texas, literature, antebellum, mudsill people, wage-slave, debt-slave, sovereignty of states, individual sovereignty, federal sovereignty, matrimony, Civil War
| | | | I was one of the writers asked by the Dallas Morning News to write a brief essay on The Future of Texas Literature. Below is my contribution.
The future of Texas literature is exciting and dangerous as chaotic times are. Exciting because there will be more Texas writers, books, publishers. Exciting because someone in Chillicothe can write a book that can be read by anyone who reads English anywhere in the world. Dangerous because electronic books make it possible for anyone who has computer skills, or the money to hire someone who does, can write and/or publish a book. Dangerous because in the plethora of books, some books may not find voice at the essential moment to salvage the writer’s dream or enlighten the body politic.... | | | | | |
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