OXFORD
AMERICAIN
SUMMER 2014
POINTS SOUTH
8 Amanda Petrusich 22 A guide by Hannah
listens to Black Patti 8030
12 Son Thomas
Dela Cruz Abrams
24
Jamie Allen
considers the squirrel
Makes a Ladyhead,
by Cree McCree 28 American Folk:
14 Eric Benson among
the King’s men
19 Last Will, a story
by Lisa Howorth
Photographs by
Lisa Elmaleh
33
Carol Spindel
remembers the ghosts of Memphis
20 Tom Zoellner puts
a classic speed trap to rest
37 Local Fare:
John T. Edge on Indian truck-stop eats
FEATURES
40 DAUGHTERS
OF THE SPRINGS by Lauren Groff
58 SCOUT’S HONOR
by Rosecrans Baldwin
72 O BEULAH LAND
by Catherine Venable Moore 88 JACK MY HEART
by William Giraldi
98 TRADITIONAL
DEVELOPMENT a story by George Singleton
32 Tornado, by Ansel Elkins
POETRY
44 Because There’s Still a Sky, Junebug, by Tarfia Faizullah
63 Stand, by Jericho Brown
87 Along the Mississippi, by Monica A. Hand
110 PRIVATE
HOUSEHOLD OCCUPATIONS by Ellen Ann Fentress
OMNIVORE
120 MUSINGS FOR
CHAMELEONS Hilton Als’s white girls by Natalie Elliott
126 Cooking with Chris:
BOURBON AND CHEESE by Chris Offutt
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Julie Blackmon, Bob Bayne, Jared Soares, Ken Brown, Rex Miller, Michael Sherwin, Thomas Prior, Anna Dykema, Tim Davis, Michelle Norris, Lisa Elmaleh, Brian Anderson, Meryl Truett, Michael Muller,
Chris Jackson, Roger May, Scott Hubener, Eleanor Davis, Kendall Messick, Ralph Smith
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