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Issue 18, Fall 1997

Faulkner Centennial Issue

“It is [the poet’s] privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.” — William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Features include “The Homesick Letters of William Faulkner,” by Padgett Powell and Donald Kartiganer. Fiction by Mark Richard. Other contributors include Steve Yarbrough, Diane Roberts, Bern Keating, Vladimir Nabokov, William C. Ordiorne, and others.







COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS


Editor’s Box

Dear OA 

Dealer’s Choice
by Hal Crowther

Waving Not Drowning
by Julia Reed

Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.

History
by Bern Keating

Books 
by Fred Hobson

Video
by Randall Curb

Criticism 
by Vladimir Nabokov

Comics 
by P. Revess

Southern Scenes
by William C. Ordiorne

FEATURES


The Homesick Letters of William Faulkner

On Coming Late to Faulkner
by Padgett Powell

The Long Shadow 
by Donald Kartiganer

SHORT STORY


Memorial Day
by Mark Richard

ESSAYS


Grandma's Table
by Steve Yarbrough

When You Can't Quit Your Baby
by Diane Roberts

SOUTHERN GALLERY


Joseph Blotner

Shelby Foote

Howard Bahr