Oxford American # 44, March/April 2003

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Box
by Marc Smirnoff

The Front:
Dispatches from around the South.

Sense of Place:
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Photographs by Lucy Capehart

Local Fare:
The Culinary Underground
by John T. Edge

Family:
Burning Love
by Linda Sherbert

Art:
Visions of Finster
by Greg Bottoms

Recollections:
Miss Welty Comes to Town
by Roger Mudd

Law:
Between the Lines
by Emily Bazelon

Criticism:
A Lonely Crusade
by Adam Kirsch

Fine Print
George Patterson, Percival Everett, and John McManus reviewed.

Music Notes
Uncle Tupelo, Cat Power, Kenny Brown, Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy, Stephen Malkmus, and more.

Dealer's Choice:
Twilight of the Dragons?
by Hal Crowther

Gone Off Up North:
Casting Watermelons
by Roy Blount, Jr.

Southern Scenes:
Gueydan, Louisiana
Photograph by Sarah Wilson

FEATURES

Greys in Flight
Dogs in the city usually don’t get into this kind of trouble.
A story by Lewis Nordan

Hardcore Troubadours
The Old Crow Medicine Show wants to rescue country music—if only Nashville will give them the chance.
by Matt Dellinger

Our Own Monsters
In a Louisiana swamp, a phobia two hundred million years in the making comes alive.
by Sam Anderson

POETRY

Central State, by Laura Newbern

Sheep Slaughter in 75 Syllables, by Benjamin Pryor



Cover: Photograph by Sarah Wilson