Oxford American # 29, September/October 1999

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Box

Uncle Art's Things You Should Know

Dealer's Choice:
Strangers in the Swamp
by Hal Crowther

Outdoors:
An Entangled Thing
by Alan Jacobs

Outdoors:
Deer Season, 1974
by Tony Earley

First Person:
A World of Glass
by Kevin Wilson

Argument
Forbidden Fruit
by John Simpkins

The Political Animal
Your Clan Or Ours?
by Diane Roberts

Local Fare:
I’m Not Leaving until I Eat This Thing
by John T. Edge

Family Life
Promise of Glamour
by Darcey Steinke

Sojourns:
Fake Bullets in Louisiana
by Jack Heffron & Mark Garvey

Photo Essay
The Art of Drowning
by Maude Schuyler Clay

Southern Music:
Endangered Species: New Orleans Street Jazz
by Tom Piazza

Soundcheck: Short Music Reviews

Talkies:
Robert Altman’s Intimate Portraits
by Steve Vineberg

Wildlife:
The Riddles of the Sphinx
by Janet Lembke

Gone off up North:
Stocks and Bondage
by Roy Blount Jr.

Tribute:
Willie Morris (1934-1999)
by Donna Tartt

Tribute:
It Cannot Be Long
Remembering a friend.
by William Styron

Southern Scenes:
Willie Morris, Jackson, Mississippi, 1993
Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay

FEATURES

Initiations
A father reveals that although the rites of youth have changed, taking the hard climb to the top is still the only way to view higher ground.
by Tim McLaurin

Reflections On The Last Alabama Midwife
A young white Harvard grad and an illiterate black "granny" write a book together and upset Mobile society
by Katherine Clark

FICTION

Least of Kin
by Jean Ross Justice

Water Dog God: A Ghost Story
by Brad Watson

POETRY

Who Said That?, by Alfred Corn

New Orleans Engagement, by Dave Smith

A Lot, by Scott Cairns



Cover: Photograph by Frank Ockenfels