Oxford American # 43, January/February 2003

COLUMN & DEPARTMENTS

From the Publisher
by Russ McDonough III

Editor's Box
by Mark Smirnoff

Sense of Place:
Blanch, North Carolina
Photograph by Carlos Gustavo

The Front
Vessels of worship in Daytona Beach; the case against “white trash”; truth in nutria advertising; and more.

Local Fare:
The Gathering Place
by John T. Edge

Sketchbook:
The National Storytelling Festival
by Mike Caplanis

Meditations:
Paradise Ruined
by Joy Williams

In Georgia:
The Advocate
by Ceiridwen Terrill

Travel:
Motel Life, Lower Reaches
by Charles Portis

Criticism:
Uncle Remus Is Dead, Long Live Uncle Remus
by Mark Schone

Material Reading
The best in books and letters.

In Paperback:
Mississippi Turning
by Marc Smirnoff

Fine Print:
James Twitchell’s Living It Up; Huston Curtiss’s Sins of the Seventh Sister

Music Notes:

Will Blythe on Jim Dickinson

Annie Wedekind on Gene Vincent

Dealer's Choice:
Listening to the Land
by Hal Crowther

Gone Off Up North:
The Worm Bubble
by Roy Blount

Southern Scenes:
Blanch, North Carolina
Photograph by Carlos Gustavo

FEATURES

America, Look at Your Shame!
A previously unpublished essay on race relations in WWII America.
by James Agee

All We Read Is Freaks
and other literary criticism from today’s collegians.
by William Bowers

A Work in Progress
Appalachian Lives
Photographs by Shelby Lee Adams

The Favors of Men
There were advantages to be had, and taken, on the creekbank.
A story by Wells Tower

POETRY

Independence Day, by Charles Simic

Azaleas by Birdbath, by James Applewhite

At Sunset and After, by Louis Bourgeois

Making up the Dead, by Walter Griffin



Cover: Photograph by Ken West