Oxford American # 9, October/November 1995

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Down, Out, & About:
The Crime Scene
Liberty for Y’all
The Patty Wagon

Southern Humor:
ELVIS WEEK CONFIDENTIAL
by John Fergus Ryan

Southern Travel:
Look Homeward, Thomas
by Thomas Easterling

Southern Outdoors:
A Day No Fish Would Die
by Jonathon Miles

Interview:
Joel Schumacher: Director of a Time to Kill

Southern Music:
In Memoriam: Charlie Rich
by Charles Taylor

Southern Bookstores:
That Bookstore in Blytheville
by Marc Smirnoff

Southern Books:
Lee Smith: This World Is Not My Own
by Charles Taylor

Southern Books:
B.C. Hall & C.T. Wood: Telling About the South
by Fred Hobson

Southern Scenes:
Walker Percy’s the Second Coming
by Robert Brinkerhoff

FEATURES

Short Stories:
The Accidents of Man
by Debra Leigh Scott

Short Stories:
November
by Richard Rubin

Reporting:
Old Terror, New Hearts
Inside Louisiana's Leper Colony
by Barry Hannah

Essay:
Southern Fashion Explained
by Julia Reed

Photography:
On Location in Canton, Mississippi
by Tom Roster