Oxford American # 69, Summer 2010

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

I Don’t Hate It!:
The Rest of the Best
by Jack Pendarvis

Local Fare:
Looking for Honest Stories
by John T. Edge

Environment
Green With Guns
by Diane Roberts

Psychology
Are You a Tree Bitch?
by Ad Hudler

After the Storm:
Doctor Love's Secrets
by Woodlief Thomas

Dining Out:
A Fine Restaurant in Nowhere, South Carolina, Run by a Man Named Xue
by George Singleton

History:
Intimate Strangers
by Ellen Ann Fentress

Family:
The Best-Ever Dog
by Robin Kirk

Literature:
A Good Summer
by William Caverlee

The Past:
Our Best Golfer
by Thomas Cochran

After the Storm:
Recovery with a Vengence
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

Dealer’s Choice:
Sex and the Southern Politician
by Hal Crowther

Writing on Writing:
A Good Life
by Clyde Edgerton

Southern Scenes
Photograph by Oraien Catledge

FEATURES

Rising Tide
A story by Elizabeth Spencer

Something You Can't Live Without
A story by Matthew Neill Null

FIFTH ANNUAL BEST OF THE SOUTH ODES

Maud Newton haunts a hotel

David Ramsey praises a puppetmaster

Brett Land seeks a psychic cure

Elizabeth Walton Wade cheers for college football

Dana Shavin gallops to adulthood

Alex V. Cook takes a transcendental dip

Beth Ann Fennelly heats up your reading list

Joni Tevis jams to antique tunes

Brad Land crosses the border

Michael Gillis reveals a family history

Dale Ray Phillips fishes for love

Diann Blakely prays for a sparrow

Russ Franklin hears the engines roar

Kevin Brockmeier selects 10 under 100

Amy Pence unlocks the past

William Giraldi admires bodacious legs

John Holman salutes a bird

Josh Weil fills up at a station without gas

Erin Sroka plays a game

Horace Mungin hauls in a bountiful catch

Drew Perry digs good dirt

Sharon Stone whispers to wild things

Drew Bratcher faces a primal fear

Mija Riedel stalks the Queen of cups

David Gessner hails a mighty book

Harold Whit Williams forgets his manners

Williams Bowers focuses on phallic art

Colleen Kane roams a city's ruins

Jamie Quatro arranges Barry Hannah's literary insights



Cover: "Backyard Defenders," East Austin, Texas, March 2010. Photograph by Noël Kristi Wells