“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.
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
Native Daughter
by Lee Smith
Veneer
by Steve Yarbrough
Paradise
by Ellen Gilchrist
Swamp Angel • The Shadow • Bohemian Heaven
by Florence King
by Hal Crowther
by John Fergus Ryan
by Chris Nutter
by David Carkeet
by Chuck Oldham
by John Lewis
by Fetzer Mills
by Philip Martin
by Stephanie Zacharek
by Andrei Codrescu
by Fred Hobson
by P. Reeves
by Roy Blount, Jr.
by Bill Mayer