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All of your favorite Music Issues—buy one, get one free. Excludes rare editions, but all others are fair game!
All of your favorite Music Issues—buy one, get one free. Excludes rare editions, but all others are fair game!
“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Includes a previously unpublished short story Zora Neale Hurston, with more fiction by John Grisham.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.
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
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