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
by Barry Hannah
The quest of a handsome doctor, the love of a plain woman.
Eat
by Brad Barkley
Some dinners you can’t ever leave.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Hunting in the South
by Tom Rankin
COMMENTARY
Lee Staggers
by Charles Taylor
Spike Lee’s vision thing.
R.E.M. For the People
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Four Georgian hipsters analyzed.
Vladimir & Stanley
by Steve Vineberg
ESSAY
Down the Creek
by Thomas McNamee
On the trail of alligator turtles, cow-eating panthers & concrete.
Dixie Dynamite
by Alan Huffman
An unsolved murder still beckons.
The Killing of an Eagle Editor
by Joel Williamson
Shooting on the Square: the Faulkner Connection.
INTERVIEW
John Grisham: On sex, violence, Hollywood and Pee Wee Herman.
POETRY
The Pepped-Up Fetish
X. J. Kennedy
cover charge
Charles Bukowski
The Budweiser Eagle
X. J. Kennedy
The Sack Of The City Of God
Michael Chitwood
U.S. Porn Queen (Ret.)
Fred Chappell
Mortification in Montmartre
Jeanne Steig
Curmudgeon and Slayer
Actoo Theodophilus
Cover Art: by Tom Bachtell.
