Oxford American # 6, March/April 1995

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Down, Out & About:
Back Valley Library
Good Cobb
Badd Cobb
North Georgia Wedding
We’re All Miss Americas

Southern Humor:
From the Journals of a Commercial Traveler
by John Fergus Ryan

Southern Humor:
Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Kinfolk
by Florence King

Southern Outdoors:
Appalachian Boardom
by Jonathan Miles

Southern Dining:
Charlie Vergos’s Rendezvous
by Lindapeal White

Southern Travel:
Chalet Suzanne
by Scott M. Morris

Southern Video:
Intruder in the Dust
by Steve Vineberg

Southern Scenes
by Josef Gast

Southern Books:
Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s the House of Percy and the Literary Percys
by Fred Hobson

Southern Books:
William Styron’s Darkness Visible And Reynolds Price’s a Whole New Life
by Steven Harvey

FEATURES

Short Stories:
Black Death
by Zora Neale Hurston

Short Stories:
The Question of Father Murphy’s Sin
by Pepper Smith

Short Stories:
The Birthday
by John Grisham

Short Stories:
Swarner and Me Talking
by John Fulton

Essays:
In Melbourne
by Donna Tartt

Essays:
The Making of a Book
by Lewis Nordan

Photo Essay:
Photographs
by Ken Light

Profile:
My Friend Forrest Gump
by Willie Morris



Cover art by Bill Mayer