Oxford American # 88, Spring 2015

Points South

Frankye's Cookbooks, by Frances Mayes

The Coded Life of William Thomas Prestwood, by Jeremy B. Jones

The Transom, by Anne Gisleson

He Is Conan, by Ron Rash

Working, by Jamie Quatro

Our Faith in Horses, by Jamie Allen

The Night Watchman, by Hal Crowther

A Start is Enough, by Jay Jennings

FEATURES

Walking the Tornado Line
by Justin Nobel

Art Against the Wall
by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

McElwee's Confessions
by William Giraldi

Bugaboo
A story by John McManus

POETRY

Campsite, Shenandoah
by Jill McDonough

Swale
by Michael Klein

Silencer to the Heart While Jogging Through a Park
by Marcus Wicker

The Shrimpy Grits
by Thomas Sayers Ellis

OMNIVORE
Breaking Bread: Who is welcome at the welcome table?

Going Deeper with Red Dog
by John T. Edge

Pining, a defintion
by Kevin Young

Coding and Decoding Dinner
by Todd Kliman

A Revolutionary Vegetable
by Sara Roahen

Rudy Lombard's Feast of Freedom
by Lolis Eric Elie

Cooking with Chris:
Trash Food
by Chris Offutt



Art by: Ben Schonzeit, Carroll Cloar, Matt Armendariz, Robert Moran, Jeremy Chandler, Anna Beeke, Lynn Gessaman, Zoe Crosher, Lance Letscher, Amy Friend, Aline Smithson, Alexis Rockman, Maurice Sherif, Stefan Falke, Susan Harbage Page, Rigoberto A. Gonzalez, Tom Martin, Kevin Leighton, Ben Couvillion, RaMell Ross, DeeAnn Wagner, Preston Gannaway, John T. Biggers, Barbara Ciurej, Lindsay Lockman

Cover: “Sunshine on Peaches,” a painting by Ben Schonzeit