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“The metaphysical inhabiting of another soul, of another gender, and of such an alien order to herself, the artist…Beyond mere empathy…these acts of art were simply genius.” — Barry Hannah on Eudora Welty
Featuring Donna Tartt, Bobbie Ann Mason, Nanci Kincaid, and Cynthia Shearer. Jonathan Van Meter goes looking for Oprah. Poetry by Memye Curtis Tucker, Katherine Soniat, and A.E. Stallings.
Other contributors include Chris Offutt, Wendy Brenner, Lorian Hemingway, Elizabeth Cox, Janice Daugharty, and more.
Waving not Drowning
Fools for love
by Julia Reed
Dealer's Choice
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
by Hal Crowther
Gone off up North
True lit
by Roy Blount Jr.
Report:
Looking for Oprah
by Jonathan Van Meter
Southern Women We Love:
Ashley Judd and Her Attitude
by Chris Offutt
Southern Women We Love:
Shannon Ravenel
by Larry Brown
Southern Women We Love:
Emmylou Harris
by Steve Earle
Southern Women We Love:
Eudora Welty
by Barry Hannah
Southern Women We Love:
Mavyne Betsch
by Russ Rymer
Southern Women We Love:
Chelsea Clinton
by Paul Zabynski
Humor:
Wine of the Week
by Wendy Brenner
Humor:
Sheroes
by Jeff Baker
Family:
The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Mind
by Bobbie Ann Mason
Family:
Other People’s Children
by Adam Shemper
Family:
The Gospel According to Freda
by Lorian Hemingway
Essay:
How I Learned I Was Southern
by Nancy Kincaid
Essay:
Baby
by Vicki Covington
Essay:
Warpaint and Orchids
by Blanche McCrary Boyd
Essay:
Ode to Crones
by Elizabeth Cox
Essay:
Ulysses Sails into Port
by Amy Blackmarr
Short Story:
Still Life with Shotgun and Oranges
by Cynthia Shearer
Short Story:
Once upon a Summer
by Janice Daugharty
Short Story:
But You Can't Blame Everything on the Baby
by A. Manette Ansay
Sidebars:
Rebel with a Horse
by Marianne Gingher
Sidebars:
The Debutante Butcher
by Clifton Dowell
Sidebars:
Funeral at Eleven
by Alan Jacobs
Sidebars:
Hoop Dreams
by Diane Roberts
Sidebars:
A Disappearing Act
by John Shelton Reed
Reconsiderations:
Finding Southern Comfort
by Valerie Boyd
Photo Essay:
Southern Women
Fashion:
Rummaging for Peace
by Shannon Magness
Analysis
The Belle and the Lady
by Donna Tartt
Book Review
Outside, Looking In
by Florence King
Cuisine:
A Taste of Hell
by John T. Edge
Music:
Trust the Song
by Tom Piazza
Southern Scenes:
Alice, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
Photograph by Debbie Fleming Caffrey
Moving Sale
by A. E. Stallings
Alluvial
by Katherine Soniat
Posing for Degas
by Memye Curtis Tucker
The Lady Chablis
by Joel Stein
Sally Mann
by Maude Schuyler Clay
Cover: "Dream" (1990), by Karekin Goekjian
