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Magazine
Issue 3, Winter 1993
"This quarterly has tons of promise."—The USA Today
"Elegantly designed...this is fresh, original writing, a pleasure to read."—the New Orleans Times-Picayune
"The most promising literary magazine in the nation."—The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
"An excellent new literary magazine."—The Lufkin (Texas)
"Could become a journal of some of the finest writing the South has to offer."—(North Carolina) Spectator
FICTION
The Vision of Esther by Clem
The quest of a handsome doctor, the love of a plain woman.
by Barry Hannah
Eat
Some dinners you can’t ever leave.
by Brad Barkley
PHOTOGRAPHS
Hunting in the South
by Tom Rankin
COMMENTARY
Lee Staggers
Spike Lee’s vision thing.
by Charles Taylor
R.E.M. for the People
Four Georgian hipsters analyzed.
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Vladimir & Stanley
by Steve Vineberg
ESSAY
Down the Creek
On the trail of alligator turtles, cow-eating panthers & concrete.
by Thomas McNamee
Dixie Dynamite
An unsolved murder still beckons.
by Alan Huffman
The Killing of an Eagle Editor
Shooting on the Square: the Faulkner Connection.
by Joel Williamson
INTERVIEW
John Grisham: On sex, violence, Hollywood and Pee Wee Herman.
POETRY
The Pepped-up Fetish, by X. J. Kennedy
Cover Charge, by Charles Bukowski
The Budweiser Eagle, by X. J. Kennedy
The Sack of the City of God, by Michael Chitwood
U.S. Porn Queen (Ret.), by Fred Chappell
Mortification in Montmartre, by Jeanne Steig
Curmudgeon and Slayer, by Actoo Theodophilus
Cover: Art: by Tom Bachtell.