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Explore our exclusive collaboration with La Panthère Studio, featuring the Memphis Music Issue + Vinyl LP, Limited Edition Southern Music Tee, and the Rhythm & Soul Tarot Deck!
“There are times in your life like that, in grief, in love, when you walk around like a live wire, meaning sparking off everything, and you go through the day dazzled and hurting.” — Anne Gisleson, “Condolences from Death Row”
Features by Jennifer Percy, Wendy Brenner, David Gessner, Anne Gisleson, and others. Plus: Padgett Powell goes for a ride; William Caverlee takes down his bird feeder; Duncan Murrell, his daughter, and a dead deer. With fiction by Delaney Nolan and Mesha Maren.
A Sausage Run with the Band, by Padgett Powell
American Goldfinch, by William Caverlee
Fighting to save Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring House, by Diane Roberts
Dead Deer, by Duncan Murrell
Charlie Cousins, by Jeffrey Rotter
Scare 'em a Little, by Robert Gordon
Fuck, a poem by Nickole Brown
The Swami of Swamp Rock, by Ted Scheinman
Adventures in Jazzland, by Benjamin Morris
Dude Ranch, by Rozalia Jovanovic
Crossing Arlington Bridge, by Nic Halverson
Fifty Shades of Greyhound, by Harrison Scott Key
Tip, a story by Mesha Maren
Waiting for the Dirt, by Ragan Sutterfield
Local Fare: Civil Roots, by John T. Edge
Don't Touch the Dummy
by Jennifer Percy
Strange Beads
by Wendy Brenner
Meet the Keatles
by David Gessner
The Outlaws
a story by Ron Rash
Condolences from Death Row
by Anne Gisleson
The Revolution Will Be Solarized
by Chris Warren
Nothing Can Cross
A story by Delaney Nolan
Tarantino Enchained
Blaxploitation Redux
by Stanley Crouch
The Blues Hero in the Spyglass Tree
Albert Murray’s Omni-Humanity
by Walton Muyumba
The Mind Revisited
Two New Books on Southern Politics
by Hal Crowther
The bottom of the River Haw
The Medium is Hiss Golden Messenger
by Amanda Petrusich
Cooking with Chris:
Bible Cake
by Chris Offutt
Art by: Colleen Plumb, Mark Steinmetz, Mike Smith, Greta Pratt, Michael Marshall, Alan Spector, Jacquelyn Sparks, Tim Barber, Tav Falco, Birney Imes, John Folsom, William Eggleston, David Rathman, Elijah Gowin, Susana Raab, Frank Hallam Day, Lucas Foglia, Bob Adelman, Alan Powdrill, Julie Heffernan, Laura Brown, Derrick Dent, Jack Spencer, Dave Anderson, Jon Edwards, Eleanor Davis, Romare Bearden, Dennis Darling, Holden Richards, M. C. Taylor, Susan Worsham
Cover: "Nungesser Elephant, New Orleans" (2010) by Collen Plumb