Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing

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A comprehensive anthology of The Oxford American's most memorable pieces published during the first decade of the magazine's existence, these articles prove provocative, opinionated, and irreverent. The Oxford American has served as an incubator and archive for the most promising and most established voices in contemporary Southern writing. It offers up an extraordinary range of perspectives on a multitude of subjects, while always avoiding the hackneyed notion of the South as the exclusive province of the gothic or the sentimental dominion of moonlight and magnolias. Collected here are the magazine's stellar fiction and poetry offered alongside its best commentary, profiles, photography, comics, and reporting on ...
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A comprehensive anthology of The Oxford American's most memorable pieces published during the first decade of the magazine's existence, these articles prove provocative, opinionated, and irreverent. The Oxford American has served as an incubator and archive for the most promising and most established voices in contemporary Southern writing. It offers up an extraordinary range of perspectives on a multitude of subjects, while always avoiding the hackneyed notion of the South as the exclusive province of the gothic or the sentimental dominion of moonlight and magnolias. Collected here are the magazine's stellar fiction and poetry offered alongside its best commentary, profiles, photography, comics, and reporting on politics, history, religions, art, books, film, and humor.

Marc Smirnoff is the founder and editor of The Oxford American. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
On May 2, 2002, editor Smirnoff sent a letter to Oxford American advertisers announcing the impending closing of the magazine due to a lack of funds to print the spring issue. On May 10, the New York Times picked up on the news with an essay entitled A Mississippi Upstart, As It Lay Loudly Dying. The fate of the magazine is still unclear, but this collection should tide readers over for the present with its eclectic array of fiction, essays and poetry. In his introduction, Smirnoff explains the difficulty of choosing the best from a roster of writers that reads like a Whos Who of Southern Lit. After an eloquent foreword by Rick Bragg, these luminaries include William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Walker Percy, Barry Hannah, Steve Martin, John Updike, Larry Brown, Rosanne Cash, John T. Edge, Steve Yarbrough, Roy Blount Jr. and John Grisham. Of course, there are many excellent pieces: Sister Helen Prejeans Memories of a Dead Man Walking is as powerful as it is plainspoken; Rick Bass enchants with Turtlemania, in which he recalls a childhood encounter with a huge snapping turtle; Donna Tartt weighs in with a moving remembrance of Willie Morris. Despite the heavyweight lineup"or perhaps because of it"the arc of the collection is predictable, but those who like their writing home style will find much to savor here. (Aug.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
Smirnoff introduced the Oxford American in spring 1992, arguing that it was "time for a good general magazine to originate from the South." His goals included publishing various forms of excellent writing for the intelligent, nonacademic general reader. One of the magazine's great strengths has been Smirnoff's willingness to publish largely unknown regional writers, many of whom have gone on to substantial careers. As this "best of" anthology shows, Smirnoff has successfully balanced an intriguing blend of commercial fiction (e.g., John Grisham, who underwrote the project for many years), unpublished manuscripts by Southern stalwarts (e.g., William Faulkner, Zora Neal Hurston, and Walker Percy), and commentary on Southern culture (John T. Edge, Roy Blount Jr., and Hal Crowther). Many of the selections are by noteworthy authors among them Grisham, Cythnia Shearer, Larry Brown, John Updike, John Grisham, Donna Tart, Barry Hannah, and Steve Yarbrough who have lived or set their work in Oxford, MS, the home of the Oxford American. The magazine has been both passionately praised and roundly criticized for its quirky approach to literature, and readers will probably have the same response to this well-crafted collection. Recommended for libraries with large collections of Southern literature and as demand warrants. Pam Kingsbury, Florence, AL

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781588180810
  • Publisher: Perseus Distribution
  • Publication date: 5/1/2002
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 5.55 (w) x 8.49 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Mr. Puniverse 1
My Hand Is Just Fine Where It Is 15
Anthropology 28
Memorial Day 42
Flight Patterns 50
Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road 77
Letter From Sister: What We Learned at the P.O. 84
Homage to Halliburton 89
Turtlemania 93
from Fire Notes 98
The Most Human Sound 113
Hussy in the Hood 118
Horses and Boys 126
The Faulkner Thing 138
Willie Morris, 1934-1999 143
The Chess King of Decatur Street 152
I'm Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing 163
Forbidden Fruit 168
Grandma's Table 173
First Tell Me What Kind of Reader You Are 185
Rose of Lebanon 191
Black Death 214
Young Neclear Physicist 221
Sermon with Meath 247
Memories of a Dead Man Walking 258
Jim White's Yellow Mind 265
Banjo 279
Note in a Bottle 286
Feet in Smoke 292
Death in New Orleans, A Romance 74
The Beautiful Bowel Movement 172
At the Young Composers' Concert 184
Notes on Contributors 303

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