Oxford American # 55, Winter 2006

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Gone Off Up North:
Deep in the Heart of It
by Roy Blount, Jr.

Local Fare:
Holy Smoke
by John T. Edge

Donald Harrington
The 2006 Oxford American Lifetime Award (for Contributions to Southern Literature)
With appreciations by Jack Butler, Molly Giles, Kevin Brockmeier, and Miller Williams

People:
The Man of a Thousand Thrills
by Kevin Conley

OA Comix:
The Mosquitoes Ate Up My Sweetheart
by Bongoût

Writing on Writing:
The Mulcher
by Chris Bachelder

Sense of Place:
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
Putnam County, Georgia, 2005
Photo essay by A. Scott

Politics:
Party of One
by John C. Williams

After the Storm:
Rocket Man
by Ginny Johnson

Masterpieces:
Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
by Sven Birkerts

Family:
Last Days
by Andrew Hudgins

Books:
The Strange Case of Brad Vice
by Michelle Richmond

Stories:
How Far Into Grief, Disaster, or Horror?
by William Caverlee

Southern Scenes:
William Styron, July 1960
Photograph by David Lees

FEATURES

Dark Harvest
On the pleasures of teaching noir, an underdog genre
by Barry Hannah

Tollbooth Confidential
Doing bad stuff is as safe as flying in an airplane
a story by Jack Pendarvis

A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets
The coat belonged to him now. It had changed him into someone he had never expected to be
a story by Kevin Brockmeier

Surrender
This child was nothing like her son
A story by Jill McCorkle

POETRY

Three Days After Easter, 1994, by Jennifer Strange

Penumbra, by Reynolds Dixon

Waking Up in Baghdad, by Greg Alan Brownderville



Cover: “Branded Woman” by Glen Orbik. Originally published by Hard Case Crime.