Dive into Memphis magic with our 26th Annual Southern Music Issue!
From Al Green to Elvis, explore iconic photography and fresh takes on legends through stellar writing from Zandria Robinson, Robert Gordon & more.
From Al Green to Elvis, explore iconic photography and fresh takes on legends through stellar writing from Zandria Robinson, Robert Gordon & more.
“I received Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal while in residence at the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. I carried the galley around with me for a week, the book always in my backpack. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers.” — Jamie Quatro, “The Sound Before the Song”
Essays by Steve Featherstone, Rachel Monroe, John T. Edge, Courtney Balestier, Kate Sweeney, and more. Fiction by C.E. Morgan. Poetry by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay.
Drowning Deer, by Jim Minick
Five poems, by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Remembering the Relocation, by Keith O'Brien
Where Books Fall Open, by James Seay
Deep Blue Sea, by Kate Sweeney
Delta Dogs, photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay
Mr. Blue, by Mark Lane
Visions of Coahoma, by Nathan Salsburg
King of the Bean People, by Courtney Balestier
Hail Dayton, by Rachael Maddux
Local Fare: The State of the Broth, by John T. Edge
Snakelandia: The Great Florida Python Hunt
by Steve Featherstone
Spinning Steel Into Gold
by Ginger Dellenbaugh
Fire Behavior
by Rachel Monroe
My Friend, Nothing is in Vain
A story by C. E. Morgan
The Sound Before the Song
Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal
by Jamie Quatro
What We Share
The stories of Elizabeth Spencer
by William Giraldi
Cooking with Chris:
Chicken Eggs
by Chris Offutt
Art by: Benjy Russell, Holly Andres, Melissa Ann Pinney, McNair Evans, Greg Westfall, Joe Leavenworth, Fabian Häusermann, Alexis Vasilikos, Maude Schuyler Clay, Lara Shipley, Allison V. Smith, Aaron Cohen, Tammy Mercure, David Hilliard, Steve Featherstone, Tom Martin, Jody Fausett, Tom Chambers, Eleanor Davis, Kathleen Robbins, Jenny Gummersall
Cover: “Portrait of Stacy Kranitz in Dowelltown, Tennessee” by Benji Russell