Oxford American # 18, Fall 1997

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Box

Dear OA

Dealer’s Choice
by Hal Crowther

Waving Not Drowning
by Julia Reed

Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.

History
by Bern Keating

Books
by Fred Hobson

Video
by Randall Curb

Criticism
by Vladimir Nabokov

Comics
by P. Revess

Southern Scenes
by William C. Ordiorne

FEATURES

The Homesick Letters of William Faulkner

On Coming Late to Faulkner
by Padgett Powell

The Long Shadow
by Donald Kartiganer

SHORT STORY

Memorial Day
by Mark Richard

ESSAYS

Grandma's Table
by Steve Yarbrough

When You Can't Quit Your Baby
by Diane Roberts

SOUTHERN GALLERY

Joseph Blotner

Shelby Foote

Howard Bahr