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Issue 9, October / November 1995

 

“Man loves to fight, must fight, must do, must conquer a day or lie shiftless, moaning and feckless. Many have felt this…” — Barry Hannah in “Old Terror, New Hearts”

Barry Hannah reports on “Inside Louisiana’s Leper Colony.” Short stories by Debra Leigh Scott and Richard Rubin. Julia Reed explains Southern fashion. Photography by Tom Roster in Canton, Mississippi. Marc Smirnoff writes about That Bookstore in Blytheville. Interview with Joel Schumacher, the director of A Time to Kill. Other contributors include Charles Taylor, Fred Hobson, Thomas Easterling, and Robert Brinkerhoff.







COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS


Down, Out, & About:
The Crime Scene
Liberty for Y’all
The Patty Wagon

Southern Humor:
ELVIS WEEK CONFIDENTIAL 
by John Fergus Ryan

Southern Travel:
Look Homeward, Thomas
by Thomas Easterling

Southern Outdoors:
A Day No Fish Would Die
by Jonathon Miles

Interview:
Joel Schumacher: 
Director of a Time to Kill

Southern Music: 
In Memoriam: Charlie Rich
by Charles Taylor

Southern Bookstores:
That Bookstore in Blytheville
by Marc Smirnoff

Southern Books:
Lee Smith: This World Is Not My Own
by Charles Taylor

Southern Books:
B.C. Hall & C.T. Wood: Telling About the South
by Fred Hobson

Southern Scenes:
Walker Percy’s the Second Coming
by Robert Brinkerhoff

FEATURES


Short Stories:
The Accidents of Man
by Debra Leigh Scott

Short Stories:
November 
by Richard Rubin

Reporting:
Old Terror, New Hearts
Inside Louisiana's Leper Colony
by Barry Hannah

Essay:
Southern Fashion Explained
by Julia Reed

Photography:
On Location in Canton, Mississippi
by Tom Roster