“I would occasionally worry I was selling out doing all this high-culture stuff. Willie, a miner’s son from Kilmarnock, always assured me that this was a fear I should not entertain. He never believed that high art was an exclusive province.”
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Goodbye, William McIlvanney: socialist and literary genius
As the literary world says goodbye to the Big Man from Kilmarnock, his friend Gerard Carruthers remembers a writer at the heights of the British canon.
