Oxford American # 72, Spring 2011

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

South Toward Home:
Colors That Bleed
by Warwick Sabin

I Don’t Hate It!:
“There's Your Story"
by Jack Pendarvis

Local Fare:
The Secret Was in the Sauce
by John T. Edge

Politics:
Judy Bonds (1952-2011)
by Hal Crowther

Letters:
The Red and the Black
by Makkada B. Selah

Letters
Growing Up on a Tandem Bicycle
by Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

Music:
Finger-Lickin' Rap
by Ben Westhoff

Education:
Ivory Towers
by Virginia A.K. Moran

FEATURES

Dean's Crash
A crash course in Faulkner family history.
by Joshua Clark

Family Blood
My brother's loaded gun.
by Sarah Courteau

Another Long Haul
Mack truck daddy.
A story by Thomas Cooper

POETRY

Homage to J.E. Pitts, by Louis Bourgeois

I, You, Reader, Stoned Man, Silly Lady, by Peter Cooley

Allowed Into Morning, by Clifford Paul Fetters

Captain Sewer, by Leslie St. John

I Believe, by Bernadette Geyer

Intersection, by Richard T. Raunch

BOOKS

Reviews by Alexander Provan, Scott Saul, William Caverlee, J.B. Slogan, Kevin Brockmeier, and John Oliver Hodges

Barry Hannah and the World
by Burke Nixon, Rick Bass, Donna Tartt, Scott Howdeshell, M.O. Walsh, Elizabeth Kaiser, Michael Bible, Beth Ann Fennelly, Humphreys McGee, Sven Birkerts, Jamie Quatro, Jack Pendarvis, Maude Schuyler Clay, Jefferson Baker, Wyatt Prunty, Bob Shacochis,Brad Watson, Neil White, Philip Beidler, Philip Stephens, Abigail Greenbaum, Lisa Howorth, Adam Shemper, Don Noble



Cover: Barry Hannah in Oxford, Mississippi. Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay