Oxford American # 25, Winter 1999

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Dealer's Choice
by Hal Crowther

Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.

Argument:
A Man in Fulton County
Atlanta's reaction to Tom Wolfe's new novel.
by John Shelton Reed

Family Scenes:
My Grandfather's Finger
One family's unusual heirmloom.
by Edward Swift

Argument:
Letter from Sister: What We Learned at the P.O.
On Eudora Welty's poor (fictional) relations.
by Tony Earley

Southern Art:
Divine Visions
by Darcey Steinke

Sporting/Fishing
For the Love of Mullet
Why this "trash fish" has become a cause célèbre along the Gulf Coast.
by Diane Roberts

Profiles:
My Actual Hero
by Nancy Lemann

Profiles:
The Gift-Giver
by Patrick Samway, S.J.

Considerations
In Black and White
Should black readers give Faulkner a second chance?
by Édouard Glissant

Travel:
What Is It like to Be a Genius? Is It Cool or Hard?
On the mathematician John Nash, game theory, and West Virginia.
by Greg Williamson

Science:
The Body Farm
It's not your average laboratory.
by Greg Smith

Reconsiderations:
Still Standing
Why the prophecies of the Agrarians should not have been ignored.
by Wendell Berry

Southern Art:
The Literate Art of William Christenberry
by Randall Curb

Cuisine:
Living (And Dining) in the Nu South
by John T. Edge

Music:
How to Survive the New Year
by Tom Piazza

Books:
O Reality! A Year in Southern Verse
by John J. Sullivan

Plugged Into the Mythic Past
by Anthony Walton

Verse:
Snapshot of Jonquils
by James Applewhite

SHORT STORY

An Interesting Trip: Introduction to “Young Nuclear Physicist”
by Shelby Foote

Young Nuclear Physicist
A Southern Gentleman looks for love in New York.
by Walker Percy

Mr. Puniverse
May the force of desire be with you.
by Wendy Brenner


Southern Gallery

An Interview with Jimmy Carter



Cover: By Evelyn Hofer