Magazine

Issue 38, March / April 2001

“[T]he speedy advance of technological wizardry, or the Web, is both dubious and vulnerable. It is now less of a secret that dot-com mergers and dot-com economics are not enough to satisfy the deeper cravings in our souls.” — “Editor’s Box”

Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan, Susan Sontag, Cynthia Shearer, and Rebecca Bengel. Fiction by Andrea Lee and Aleda Shirley.

Other contributors include Marty Stuart, James Carlos Blake, Brad Watson, J.E. Pitts, and more.

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Local Fare:
Paris Through Yam-Colored Glasses
Chez Haynes was once the heart of the black expatriate community in France
By John T. Edge

Dealer’s Choice
By Hal Crowther

Gone Off Up North
By Roy Blount Jr.

Traveling Dangerously:
From Zaire with Love
Dodging bullets and drinking beer with nuns
By Ken Wells

History:
The Hollow Men
Mysterious cave paintings in Tennessee
By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Forum:
Favorite Destinations
Southern notables’ must-see recommendations

Road Trip:
Truck Stop Heaven
The Red Hot served the best coffee on the road
By Marty Stuart

Road Trip:
Shortcut
He wanted to get to the girl quickly
By James Carlos Blake

Road Trip:
Take Off the Blindfold, My Friend. . . .
In search of the future with roadside physics
By Brad Watson

Natural History:
Puc Puggy in Xanadu
Exploring Florida’s St. Johns River
By Bill Belleville

Lost Classics:
Homage to Halliburton
The adventuring Southerner Richard Halliburton was a lasting literary influence
By Susan Sontag

Lost Classics:
The Last Great Traveler
On Halliburton’s Royal Road to Romance
By Evan S. Connell

Periodicals:
An Editor at Large
The Southern education of one of the founders of modernism
By Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

Book Views:
Invisible Cities
A real guide to some unreal places
By Michael Dirda

Southern Music:
Ebony Silhouette
Afternoons with the late Milt Hinton
By Tom Piazza

FEATURES

Charmed Lives
The making of a travel editor; a person whose work is vacationing
By Thomas Swick

Postcards from the Fair
Cakewalks, horse races, a midway—Neshoba County, Mississippi, might be heaven
By Kevin Canty

Far from the Madding Utopia
The experimental commune of Rugby, Tennessee, lives on
By Cynthia Shearer

Good-bye Yellow Brick Road
The Land of Oz park was a magical place atop a North Carolina mountain
By Rebecca Bengal

SHORT STORIES

Anthropology
A young urbanite searches for her rural roots
By Andrea Lee

The Interior West
The Twilight Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico. . .could this be home?
By Aleda Shirley

POETRY

Widow of the Flatlands, by J. E. Pitts

Cape Cod Evening, 1939, by Claude Wilkinson

Letters from John Hardin to Miss Ara Boggs, by Miles Garett Watson