Oxford American # 60, Spring 2008

Columns & Departments

Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

Publisher’s Note
by Warwick Sabin

Gone Off Up North:
Where exactly is home?
by Roy Blount, Jr.

Dealer’s Choice:
House-worship and economic cannibalism created the foreclosure crisis.
by Hal Crowther

The Outdoors:
A passion for dogwoods.
by Allison Wallace

Local Fare:
Holding onto the past through pickling and canning.
by John T. Edge

Ode:
Romancing a saloon.
by Wright Thompson

Ode:
Domestic turmoil for undergrads.
by Mike Powell

Meditations:
Far from family.
by Dolores Alfieri

Travel:
A castle for an unrequited love.
by Karen Russell

Essay:
Less is more in a house built by a one-armed man.
by Dana Shavin

Essay:
Perched above the superhighway.
by Vivé Griffith

Field Notes:
A house burns down, but lives on.
by Paul Reyes

The Outdoors:
Resting in peace-eco style-in S.C.
by Kate Sweeney

The Moviegoer:
The lost splendor of a movie palace.
by William Caverlee

Writing on Writing:
The agony and the ecstasy.
by Jeff Baker

Family Life:
The fruit of a mother and daughter relationship.
by Stella M. Capek

Report:
In some parts of Nashville kids are living in motels—if they’re lucky.
by Richard Schweid

Southerner Abroad:
Self-imposed exile in China.
by Michael Donohue

Southern Scenes:
“Marilyn & Paul McAninch” by Mallie Vena McAninch

FEATURES

A Yellow House in New Orleans
Revisiting an unloved childhood home.
by Sarah M. Broom

Beyond Nostalgia
A state-by-state tour of the most spectacular modern residences in the South.
by Various Architects

A Seller's Notes
Selling your home means turning your life inside out.
by Chris Bachelder

Among the Ruins: The Photographs of Gaston Callum
Can a camera rescue historic structures from oblivion?
by Keith Pandolfi

This Bed-And-Breakfast Could Save Your Life
Hiding out from a jealous husband.
A story by Jack Pendarvis

Grand Old Party
Sex, lies, and Republicans.
A story by Michael Knight

POETRY

Arkansas Blacks, by Greg Brownderville

Lay, by Ann Fisher-Wirth

Fork, by John Poch



Cover: “Time Out” by Julie Blackmon