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Magazine


Issue 3, Winter 1993


"This quarterly has tons of promise."—The USA Today

"Elegantly designed...this is fresh, original writing, a pleasure to read."—the New Orleans Times-Picayune

"The most promising literary magazine in the nation."—The Memphis Commercial-Appeal

"An excellent new literary magazine."—The Lufkin (Texas)

"Could become a journal of some of the finest writing the South has to offer."—(North Carolina) Spectator







FICTION


The Vision of Esther by Clem 
The quest of a handsome doctor, the love of a plain woman.
by Barry Hannah

Eat
Some dinners you can’t ever leave.
by Brad Barkley 

PHOTOGRAPHS


Hunting in the South
by Tom Rankin

COMMENTARY


Lee Staggers
Spike Lee’s vision thing.
by Charles Taylor 

R.E.M. for the People
Four Georgian hipsters analyzed.
by Elizabeth Wurtzel 

Vladimir & Stanley
by Steve Vineberg

ESSAY


Down the Creek
On the trail of alligator turtles, cow-eating panthers & concrete.
by Thomas McNamee 

Dixie Dynamite
An unsolved murder still beckons.
by Alan Huffman

The Killing of an Eagle Editor
Shooting on the Square: the Faulkner Connection.
by Joel Williamson

INTERVIEW


John Grisham
: On sex, violence, Hollywood and Pee Wee Herman.

POETRY


The Pepped-up Fetish, by X. J. Kennedy

Cover Charge, by Charles Bukowski

The Budweiser Eagle, by X. J. Kennedy

The Sack of the City of God, by Michael Chitwood

U.S. Porn Queen (Ret.), by Fred Chappell

Mortification in Montmartre, by Jeanne Steig

Curmudgeon and Slayer, by Actoo Theodophilus

 

Cover: Art: by Tom Bachtell.