Issue 5, Spring 1995
“At any rate, I’m now the publisher. Though I'm still not sure what this means exactly, I do know these things: 1. The Oxford American is not going away; 2. We are even more determined to become the South's first major general interest magazine.” — John Grisham, “Publisher's Note”
Features by Carry Holladay, James Tighe, and Barry Hannah. Photographs by William Eggleston. Introducing special departments including Humor, Southern Music, Southern Books, Southern Bestsellers, Southern Travel, Southern Video, Southern Art, Southern Scenes, Funnies, and Verse.
FEATURES
The Belle Glade
by Cary Holladay
With Osceola
by James Tighe
I Taste Like a Sword
by Barry Hannah
PHOTOGRAPHS
By William Eggleston
ESSAYS
She Was Young, I was Restless
by Scott Morris
Mrs. Myra Lizzie Williams
by Tony Earley
DEPARTMENTS
DOWN, OUT & ABOUT
Elvis’s blacksmith • Deep-fried hamburgers • Blind melon’s dad • Emus and the killer’s ‘hood
Humor
Don’t Laugh, American
by Clyde Edgerton
You Don’t Want to Go Home Again
by John Fergus Ryan
The Lost Diary of Thadeus Hawkbury, C.S.A
by Jeff Baker
Southern Music
New Releases by R.E.M., the Connells, Nanci Griffith, Blue Mountain, the JudyBats and Sugar Blue
Southern Books
Last Train to Memphis (Peter Guralnick)
by Charles Taylor
Cobb: A Biography (Al Stump)
by Allen Barra
Southern Bestsellers
A survey of what Southerners are reading.
Southern Travel
Calico Rock, Arkansas
by Linda Peal White
Southern Video
Nervous White Bot
by Sid Scott
Southern Art
John McCrady’s Dream
by Tom Payne
Southern Scenes
by Barry Root
Funnies
The Narcotics murders
by P. Revess
Verse
Lost Nixon Tape
by J.E. Pitts
Cover by Gérard
