COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

Publisher’s Note
by Warwick Sabin

I Don’t Hate It!:
Up to Our Waists in Gravy
by Jack Pendarvis

Local Fare:
Oxford Goes Green 
by John T. Edge

Writing on Writing:
The Muse 
by Rick Bragg

Writing on Writing:
A Life in Books
by Maud Casey

Lifestory:
Leaving Louisana 
by Reggie Scott Young

Lit Crit:
Whom Shall We Love
by William Caverlee

Writing on Writing:
Notwriting 
by Diane Roberts

Writing on Writing:
The Art of Opening Up 
by Moira Crone

Lit Crit:
Why Teach Faulkner?
by Graham Hillard

Lit Crit:
Modern City, Modern Writer
by Franklin Bruno

Writing on Writing:
Why We Like Drama
by Graham Gordy

Travel
Fading From View
by Anne Trubeck

Lit Crit:
Among Mutinous Helium Bursts Around Saturn
by Jamie Quatro

Lit Crit:
Beautiful, Desirable, and Dead 
by Michael Griffith

The Past Southern Enemy Number One 
by Bronwen Dickey

Writing on Writing:
Taking on the Devil
by Arthur Rickydoc Flowers

Reflection Asphodels
by Solon Timothy Woodward

Lit Crit:
Seeing Is Believing
by Richard H. King

Lit Crit:
Before the Shooting Starts
by Alan Grant

Writing on Writing:
The Rejection Files
by Cristina Henríquez

Dealer's Choice:
Deep Greens and Blues
by Hal Crowther

FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA 2009

Penitents Upon the Road 
A story by Alex Taylor

The Invitation 
A story by Barb Johnson

A Burden
A story by Wendell Berry

The Orphans' Gardening and Existentialism Club of Biblical Cadence, Tennessee
A story by Jack Pendarvis

POETRY REVUE 2009

Apologia for Being a Poet, by John Gould Fletcher

Poetry Teacher, by Elizabeth Cox

Deep Trash, by Jeff Fallis

Itinerant, by Caki Wilkinson

A Parable for My Students, by Howard Bahr

Save One, by Eric Nelson 

Downtown, by Peter Cooley

THE BEST SOUTHERN BOOKS OF ALL TIME

Our poll of 134 scholars and writers on the greatest Southern novels, nonfiction and underrated books.

Cover: photograph by Blake Fitch