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SONG AND SENSIBILITY

Since joining the  Oxford American in 2014, I’ve taken the occasion of our annual music issue to offer our readers a variety of special poetry features. I feel that our Georgia issue,...

By Rebecca Gayle Howell

BEAUTY OUT OF THE BEAUTIFUL

A conversation with Marcus Kenney.   I love to tell the story of my elderly Cajun grandmother in Louisiana. Once I found her in the garden spray-painting a camellia bush in bright silver enamel....

By Megan Mayhew Bergman

GLOBES OF QUIET PAIN

It’s nighttime in Mississippi. A bluegrass legend, alone in the hills, rolls into a familiar lick, catches a wrong note, winces, and sighs a hot, whiskey breath. Letters between lost friends float...

By Oxford American

SUCH A VIBE

Alice Swoboda discusses her brief recording career and her stunning song “Potter’s Field.” My manager at that time told me that we’re in the wrong location. He said, “You’re writing light years...

By John C. Williams

THE MONKEY PALACE AND OTHER ITEMS FROM GEORGIA

Even as we approach deadline for our Spring 2016 issue, we feel we still have one foot back in Georgia, where we spent so much time and energy producing our music issue last year.

By Oxford American

BEAUTIFUL AND BRASH

Augusta, I discovered, has shades of what cultural critic Greil Marcus calls the Old, Weird America. Sure, the city is ringed with mansions and country-club culture, but when you’re downtown,...

By David Kirby

WE DID IT!

For the first time in our 24-year history, the Oxford American brought home a National Magazine Award in General Excellence!

By Oxford American

EXAMINATION AND COMPASSION

A conversation with Chris Offutt.  This objectivity created distance in myself from everything—a distance from my own existence—which was essential in order to confront this material every day,...

By Phil McCausland

DAVE PRATER’S GREATEST HITS

Dave Prater played a quietly essential role in Sam & Dave, and it takes only a slightly closer listen to their discography to hear the vital contributions of the duo’s soft-spoken half.

By Jonathan Bernstein

HENDERSON THE SWING KING

A conversation with Cynthia Shearer. I got trained as a fiction writer to shamble in like Moms Mabley asking that the house lights be turned back on because we are not done talking about this or...

By Jay Jennings

UP NEAR THE SKY

It’s snowing in the South. A woman rises early, looks out her window at the sheets of ice, and then, smiling, falls back into bed. In an apartment down the hall, Stephen Curry highlights play on TV,...

By Oxford American

PASS AMONG THE LIVING

Dusk falls in the city. In a small and dimly lit corner bar, a jazz collective tunes up their horns, preparing to combust rhythms into the night. A man, trying to find the club on Google Maps, stops...

By Oxford American

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