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Issue 43, January / February 2003

“[T]here is also, in proportion to its best use, something criminal and indecent about the camera; and there is a great load of guilt on the eye that eats what it has predigested.” — James Agee in “America, Look at Your Shame”

Featuring a previously unpublished essay by James Agee. Other essays by Charles Portis, Joy Williams, Will Blythe, and William Bowers. Poetry by James Applewhite and Charles Simic.

Other contributors include John T. Edge, Hal Crowther, Roy Blount Jr., and Mark Schone.







COLUMN & DEPARTMENTS


From the Publisher
by Russ McDonough III

Editor's Box
by Mark Smirnoff

Sense of Place:
Blanch, North Carolina
Photograph by Carlos Gustavo

The Front
Vessels of worship in Daytona Beach; the case against “white trash”; truth in nutria advertising; and more.

Local Fare:
The Gathering Place
by John T. Edge

Sketchbook:
The National Storytelling Festival
by Mike Caplanis

Meditations:
Paradise Ruined
by Joy Williams

In Georgia:
The Advocate
by Ceiridwen Terrill

Travel:
Motel Life, Lower Reaches
by Charles Portis

Criticism:
Uncle Remus Is Dead, Long Live Uncle Remus
by Mark Schone

Material Reading
The best in books and letters.

In Paperback:
Mississippi Turning 
by Marc Smirnoff

Fine Print:
James Twitchell’s Living It Up; Huston Curtiss’s Sins of the Seventh Sister

Music Notes:

Will Blythe on Jim Dickinson

Annie Wedekind on Gene Vincent

Dealer's Choice:
Listening to the Land
by Hal Crowther

Gone Off Up North:
The Worm Bubble
by Roy Blount

Southern Scenes:
Blanch, North Carolina 
Photograph by Carlos Gustavo

FEATURES


America, Look at Your Shame! 
A previously unpublished essay on race relations in WWII America.
by James Agee

All We Read Is Freaks 
and other literary criticism from today’s collegians.
by William Bowers

A Work in Progress
Appalachian Lives
Photographs by Shelby Lee Adams

The Favors of Men 
There were advantages to be had, and taken, on the creekbank.
A story by Wells Tower

POETRY


Independence Day, by Charles Simic

Azaleas by Birdbath, by James Applewhite

At Sunset and After, by Louis Bourgeois

Making up the Dead, by Walter Griffin

 

Cover: Photograph by Ken West