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Issue 72, Spring 2011


“[Barry Hannah’s] ear for language was so pure and true that his writing classes were really more like master classes in music.” — Donna Tartt on Barry Hannah

A selection of letters between Eudora Welty and William Maxwell. Essays by Joshua Clark, Ben Westhoff, Virginia A.K. Moran, and others.

Donna Tartt, Burke Nixon, Rick Bass, Scott Howdeshell, M. O. Walsh, Elizabeth Kaiser, Sven Birkerts, Jamie Quatro, and others remember the late, great Barry Hannah, who died in 2010.







COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS


Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

South Toward Home:
Colors That Bleed 
by Warwick Sabin

I Don’t Hate It!:
“There's Your Story" 
by Jack Pendarvis

Local Fare:
The Secret Was in the Sauce 
by John T. Edge

Politics:
Judy Bonds (1952-2011)
by Hal Crowther

Letters:
The Red and the Black 
by Makkada B. Selah

Letters
Growing Up on a Tandem Bicycle 
by Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

Music:
Finger-Lickin' Rap
by Ben Westhoff

Education:
Ivory Towers 
by Virginia A.K. Moran

FEATURES


Dean's Crash
A crash course in Faulkner family history.
by Joshua Clark

Family Blood 
My brother's loaded gun.
by Sarah Courteau

Another Long Haul
Mack truck daddy. 
A story by Thomas Cooper

POETRY 


Homage to J.E. Pitts, by Louis Bourgeois

I, You, Reader, Stoned Man, Silly Lady, by Peter Cooley

Allowed Into Morning, by Clifford Paul Fetters

Captain Sewer, by Leslie St. John

I Believe, by Bernadette Geyer

Intersection, by Richard T. Raunch 

BOOKS


Reviews by Alexander Provan, Scott Saul, William Caverlee, J.B. Slogan, Kevin Brockmeier, and John Oliver Hodges

Barry Hannah and the World 
by Burke Nixon, Rick Bass, Donna Tartt, Scott Howdeshell, M.O. Walsh, Elizabeth Kaiser, Michael Bible, Beth Ann Fennelly, Humphreys McGee, Sven Birkerts, Jamie Quatro, Jack Pendarvis, Maude Schuyler Clay, Jefferson Baker, Wyatt Prunty, Bob Shacochis,Brad Watson, Neil White, Philip Beidler, Philip Stephens, Abigail Greenbaum, Lisa Howorth, Adam Shemper, Don Noble

 

 Cover: Barry Hannah in Oxford, Mississippi. Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay