Oxford American # 51, Fall 2005

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

Gone Off Up North:
Post-Styrofoamism
by Roy Blount, Jr.

Local Fare:
Eating Space
by John T. Edge

The Future:
Missing New Orleans
by J. Richard Gruber

OA Gallery
A bull, Nehi, partly cloudy days.

Miniatures:
The Intimate Art
by John Biguenet

Meditations:
Power for the People
by Tom Vanderbilt

OA Gallery
Pollock, a missing shoe, the nuclear age.

After the Storm:
Dying Order
by Patty Friedmann

After the Storm:
Waiting for Condi
by Adam Shemper

OA Gallery:
Superpowers, gingham, Hurricane Bob.

Writers as Artists:
Calves Howling at the Moon
by William Gay

OA Writers’ Gallery:
Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Zelda Fitzgerald, Donald Justice, and Stan Rice.
arranged by Catherine Gilbert

In South Carolina:
Out of This World
by Julie Ardery

OA Gallery
Fire, more fire, the woods, a diner.

Photography:
Friend of the Underclass?
by Erik Reece

OA Gallery:
Boxcars, hot sauce, the sidelong glance.

Southern Reader:
Soft and Tender Creatures
by J.B. Slogan

Dealer's Choice:
The Outsider
by Hal Crowther

Southern Scenes:
Monroe, Louisiana
by David Anderson

Poetry:
Black Velvet Jesus Over Le Corbusier Leather Chaise
by Beth Ann Fennelly

FEATURES

The Witness of Hummingbirds
A fictional autobiography of Arkansas painter Carroll Cloar.
by Donald Harington

Requiem
A poem by Yusef Komunyakaa

Stressing the Light
A rare interview with master architect E. Fay Jones.
by Roy Reed

Of Art and the Man
Now that Thornton Dial has moved from outside the art establishment to the inside, what kind of artist is he?
by Tessa DeCarlo



Cover: “Faculty and Honor Students, Lewis School House” (1966) by Carroll Cloar.