COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 

Dealer's Choice
by Hal Crowther

Gone off up North 
by Roy Blount Jr.

Local Fare:
Lunch with Jim Crow and Miss America 
Love and politics in a Delta diner.
by John T. Edge

Meditations for Bad Girls
by Vicki Covington

Athletics:
Fight Clubs
Kung fu, country style, sweeps the South.
by Hal Herring

History:
Arguing with Martin Luther King Jr.
A young reporter goes toe-to-toe with a legend in the making.
by Robert Lacy

Politics:
Trouble in Music City
The scandal-plagued reign of Nashville’s notorious mayor.
by Will Pinkston

Book Views:
The Journey Within
Charles Wright’s poetry evinces and unforgettable power.
by Anthony Walton

Lost Classics:
A Not-So-Innocent Abroad
The Virginia expatriate Julian Green wrote Southern novels that only the French appreciated.
by Dennis Drabelle

Southern Music:
Note in a Bottle
The true confessions of a fanatical record collector.
by Tom Piazza

POETRY

In my Grandfather's Grocery, a Moment for Dr. King 
by David Bottoms

Walker Evans Interior, 1936
by Jane Hirshfield

Summer Mornings
by Charles Wright

FEATURES

A Half Mile of Road in North Alabama
A poet searches the mysteries of home for the stories written into its landscape.
by Rodney Jones

Oh, You Want the Time-Travel Spinning Head!?!
A subversive cartoon talk show from Atlanta proves that there is something good on TV.
by Todd Hanson

SHORT STORY

Good 'Til Now
An affair with a troubled musician changes the life of a married woman.
by William Gay

Cover: The Cartoon Network, TCS