Oxford American # 20, Spring 1998

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Dealer’s Choice
by Hal Crowther

Waving Not Drowning
by Julia Reed

Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.

Southern Dining
by John T. Edge

Southern Gallery

Editor’s Box

Comics
by P. Revess

Southern Music
by Tom Piazza

Book Review
by Randall Curb

Poetry
by Charles Wright

FEATURES

Separate Worlds
by Jim Yardley

Illumination and Night Glare
by Carson McCullers

Closing the Book
by Edward Humes

ESSAYS

Why I Write
by Barry Hannah

What I was (Afraid of)
by Alan Jacobs

Your Husband Is Cheating on Us
A story by Jill McCorkle



Cover: Illustration by Scott Eagle