Oxford American # 3, Winter 1993

FICTION

The Vision of Esther by Clem
The quest of a handsome doctor, the love of a plain woman.
by Barry Hannah

Eat
Some dinners you can’t ever leave.
by Brad Barkley

PHOTOGRAPHS

Hunting in the South
by Tom Rankin

COMMENTARY

Lee Staggers
Spike Lee’s vision thing.
by Charles Taylor

R.E.M. for the People
Four Georgian hipsters analyzed.
by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Vladimir & Stanley
by Steve Vineberg

ESSAY

Down the Creek
On the trail of alligator turtles, cow-eating panthers & concrete.
by Thomas McNamee

Dixie Dynamite
An unsolved murder still beckons.
by Alan Huffman

The Killing of an Eagle Editor
Shooting on the Square: the Faulkner Connection.
by Joel Williamson

INTERVIEW

John Grisham: On sex, violence, Hollywood and Pee Wee Herman.

POETRY

The Pepped-up Fetish, by X. J. Kennedy

Cover Charge, by Charles Bukowski

The Budweiser Eagle, by X. J. Kennedy

The Sack of the City of God, by Michael Chitwood

U.S. Porn Queen (Ret.), by Fred Chappell

Mortification in Montmartre, by Jeanne Steig

Curmudgeon and Slayer, by Actoo Theodophilus



Cover: Art: by Tom Bachtell.