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Remembering Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy’s literary contribution is a shorthand and reference point for American fiction of the late 20th century.

By Oxford American

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Freedom House: A Sonic Bibliography

Before I knew what a poem was, I was a kid who carried around a CD player and clunky headphones, bobbing along to bops.

By KB Brookins

  

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Robert Lester Folsom: Take Two

Nearly fifty years after he started experimenting with reel-to-reel tapes, Robert Lester Folsom finally had a music career to speak of.

By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani

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You Must Tell This Story

“I want Black children, especially if they’re in the Delta or in the South, to look at blues music as something special.”

By Zeniya Cooley

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The Blinking Lights in the Wood

It was a nice thing to imagine: my beloved mother sending beneficent signals—like a ghostly Morse code—from another dimension.

By Matthew Vollmer

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When a Mystery Becomes a Memoir

The most captivating narrative thread in Diary of a Misfit is Casey Parks’s own.

By Jason Kyle Howard

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Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

If I’m thinking about how old Willie is, you can bet Willie’s thinking about it a lot more than I am.

By David Kirby

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Long Live the Queen of Memphis

How is it that you could be anywhere in the whole wide world and still sound like you and us and home?

By Zandria F. Robinson

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Spring 2023 Issue Hits Newsstands March 28

With new short fiction, literary and musical criticism, and collection of fine art, the spring issue breathes deeply and emerges hopeful.

By Oxford American

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The Yips

I open my eyes, still filled with dread. In the dream, Mark kept looking over his shoulder, again and again, telling me the tempos were off.

By Nic Brown

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Man Down

I’m not interested in speaking about the morality of these songs or whether they should exist at all. They exist.

By Jewel Wicker