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Issue 5, February 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.

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Down, Out & About:
Elvis’s Blacksmith
Deep-Fried Hamburgers
Blind Melon’s Dad
Emus and the Killer’s ‘Hood

Humor:
Don’t Laugh, America
by Clyde Edgerton

Humor:
You Don’t Want to Go Home Again
by John Fergus Ryan

Humor:
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 Boy
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

FEATURES

Ed and Eph
by Scott Morris

Pursuing Southern Humor
by Roy Blount Jr.

The Last Blues Frontier
by Johnathan Miles

Blues Night Ride
by Beverly Lowry

Photographs
by William Eggleston

FICTION

The Belle Glade
by Cary Holladay

With Osceola
by James Tighe

I Taste Like a Sword
by Barry Hannah

ESSAYS

She Was Young, I Was Restless
by Scott Morris

Mrs. Myra Lizzie Williams
by Tony Earley

Cover: by Gérard