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.
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
DEPARTMENTS
DOWN, OUT & ABOUT
Swamp Angel • The Shadow • Bohemian Heaven
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
OFF THE SELF SOUTHERN BESTSELLERS 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
