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Magazine
Issue 23, Fall 1998
“You have to accept yourself, without any concern for success, without any hope for any special kind of achievement. Just do the work…I think that is the beginning.” — Ha Jin on being a writer
Features by Diane Roberts and Mark Richard. Fiction by Ha Jin. Photo Essay by Bayard Wootten. Padgett Powell on “What Southern Literature Is.” Poetry by Andrew Hudgins, Wyatt Prunty and Eric Ormsby. A Elegy for Carl Perkins by Tom Piazza.
Other contributors include Randall Curb, Hal Crowther, Julia Reed, Roy Blount Jr., and more.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Dealer's Choice
by Hal Crowther
Waving not Drowning
by Julia Reed
Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.
Southern Music:
Elegy for Carl Perkins
by Tom Piazza
Southern Art:
Of Time and the River
Sailing down the Mississippi with New Orleans artist Simon Gunning.
by Chris Waddington
Southern Books:
A Room of His Own
Was Truman Capote a great writer?
by Randall Curb
FEATURES
50,000,000 Fans Can't Be Wrong
A Southern woman dissects Southern football.
by Diane Roberts
Who Is That Man Tied to the Mast?
A writer’s memoir.
by Mark Richard
SHORT STORY
A Tiger Fighter Is Hard to Find
by Ha Jin
POETRY
Andrew Hudgins
Wyatt Prunty
Eric Ormsby
PHOTO ESSAY
Rediscovering Bayard Wootten’s Photographs
ESSAYS
What Southern Literature Is
by Padgett Powell
My Secret Life As a Black Man
by Anthony Walton
SOUTHERN GALLERIES
Tobacco Warrior
by Mike Moore
New South Writer
by Ha Jin