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Editor's Box

Good Times, Bad Times

If magazine editors contribute in some way to the dissemination of art, it's not only in their decisions about which writing to publish, but in the routes they open up for writing. I hope we are creating a little route in this issue with the debut of a department titled "Writers on Dating."

We came by the idea easy. After all, whose dating advice should we crave more than a writer's?

Grit Nut

Some of us will do anything to avoid criticism. At exaggerated levels, people will lie and steal and kill so as to avoid it. That’s how crazy the subject can be. Perhaps the rest of us just build moderate, safe lives in the hopes of escaping detection.

Thank You Friends

A video tribute to Alex Chilton and Big Star from our second DVD, Best of the South Issue, 2008.

Four Vic Notes

John Jeremiah Sullivan remembers Vic Chesnutt.

Smirnoff’s Liner Notes for 2008

When it comes to scouring the history of Southern music, expect to find neglected, obscure, or even unknown greatness around every nook and cranny. Editor Marc Smirnoff provides a guide to the tunes on the 2008 CDs.

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