This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Magazine
Issue 6, March / April 1995
“This new issue of the Oxford American is, far and away, the best one we’ve produced. … In any event, here is the new issue, replete with writing of a most thrilling and engaging strain.… spectacular artwork, and wild hogs, not in that order." — Editor’s Note
Includes a previously unpublished short story Zora Neale Hurston, with more fiction by John Grisham. Essays by Donna Tartt and Lewis Nordan. “My Friend Forrest Gump” by Willie Morris.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Down, Out & About:
Back Valley Library
Good Cobb
Badd Cobb
North Georgia Wedding
We’re All Miss Americas
Southern Humor:
From the Journals of a Commercial Traveler
by John Fergus Ryan
Southern Humor:
Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Kinfolk
by Florence King
Southern Outdoors:
Appalachian Boardom
by Jonathan Miles
Southern Dining:
Charlie Vergos’s Rendezvous
by Lindapeal White
Southern Travel:
Chalet Suzanne
by Scott M. Morris
Southern Video:
Intruder in the Dust
by Steve Vineberg
Southern Scenes
by Josef Gast
Southern Books:
Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s the House of Percy and the Literary Percys
by Fred Hobson
Southern Books:
William Styron’s Darkness Visible And Reynolds Price’s a Whole New Life
by Steven Harvey
FEATURES
Short Stories:
Black Death
by Zora Neale Hurston
Short Stories:
The Question of Father Murphy’s Sin
by Pepper Smith
Short Stories:
The Birthday
by John Grisham
Short Stories:
Swarner and Me Talking
by John Fulton
Essays:
In Melbourne
by Donna Tartt
Essays:
The Making of a Book
by Lewis Nordan
Photo Essay:
Photographs
by Ken Light
Profile:
My Friend Forrest Gump
by Willie Morris
Cover art by Bill Mayer