This limited-run poster of our latest issue cover features “My butterfly year” by Dianna Settles, a Vietnamese-American artist from Atlanta. Her paintings trace “relationships to nature, autonomy, self-sufficiency, protest, work, and the solitude necessary for being amongst others.” Supplies are limited so grab this collector’s item today!

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Issue 12, June / July 1996

“The Southerner who moves North is a staple character of song and story. In songs he tends to be an involuntary migrant who must leave home to find work. [He dreams] of the day when he can go back to the shack and the church in the wildwood that are ever enshrined in his heart.” — Florence King, on being a Southerner, in “West Toward Home”

Featuring “What’s Spam Got To Do With It?” with text by Clyde Edgerton and photography by Jean-Christian Rostagni.

Fiction by Lee Smith, Steve Yarbrough, and Ellen Gilchrest. Departments by Hal Crowther, Florence King, John Lewis, Roy Blount, Jr., and more.







COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 


Down, Out & About
Swamp Angel
The Shadow

The Failed Southern Lady
by Florence King

Dealer’s Choice
by Hal Crowther

Behind the Scenes
by John Fergus Ryan

Self-Analysis
by Chris Nutter

Reminiscence
by David Carkeet

True Life 
by Chuck Oldham

Southern Travel
by John Lewis

Explorations
by Fetzer Mills

Southern Music
by Philip Martin

Southern Music
by Stephanie Zacharek

Southern Books
by Andrei Codrescu

Southern Books
by Fred Hobson

Comics
by P. Reeves

Gone off up North
by Roy Blount, Jr.

Southern Scenes
by Bill Mayer

FEATURE


How’s Your Lie, Bill?
by Brent Beebe

What’s Spam Got to Do With It?
text by Clyde Edgerton
photography by Jean-Christian Rostagni

SHORT STORIES


Native Daughter
by Lee Smith 

Veneer
by Steve Yarbrough

Paradise
by Ellen Gilchrist