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Issue 15, January / February 1997


“I don’t think it’s in any way about an ultimate definition. Art never should be. The worst thing you can do with art is close it down, make it mean one thing. One of the reasons great art endures the centuries is because it is open.” — Curt Richter, photographer

Essay by Barry Hannah, The Dreamworld by Donald Roller Wilson, Fiction by Deno Trakas and Lewis Nordon. Photography by Curt Richter.

Columns by Michael D’Orso, Nicholas Dawidoff, Beverly Lowry, Eric Ormsby, and others.







COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS


Dealer's Choice
Are the Fugitives still at large?
by Hal Crowther 

Comics 
by P. Revess

Gone Off Up North
A cheap shot never hurt anyone, especially if Jackie O. said so.
by Roy Blount Jr. 

Movie Talk:
UP FROM THE ASHES
Behind the scenes at Hollywood’s retelling of the Florida racial massacre.
by Michael D’Orso

Music: 
Hell's Half Acre
The troubled history of country’s best brother act.
by Nicholas Dawidoff 

Family Life:
Shooting the Cat
Who said killing a cat was easy?
by Tony Earley

Books:
South of the Times
How the South is taking over America.
by John Shelton Reed

Southern Bestsellers: 
A Book of Our Own
Why Gone with the Wind speaks to women all over the world.
by Beverly Lowry 

Verse:
Finding a Portrait of the Rugby, Tennessee Colonists, My Ancestors among Them
by Eric Ormsby

FEATURES


Essay:
Sermon with Meath 
Was Meath the big fool everyone thought he was?
by Barry Hannah 

Art Portfolio: 
The Dreamworld of  Donald Roller Wilson 
An Arkansas painter’s vision of the grandeur of monkeys, cats and dogs.

Short Story: 
The New People 
The New People were very strange, but surely they weren’t dangerous.
by Lewis Nordon

Photographic Essay: 
Portraits of Southern Writers
It takes about seven years to capture the faces of Southern literature
by Curt Richter

Photographic Essay: 
Eugene 
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
by Deno Trakas