Title: Best of the Oxford American : ten years from the southern magazine of good writing /
Authors: Bragg, Rick; Smirnoff, Marc
Publisher: Hill Street Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: American literature Southern States; Southern States Literary collections.
Contents: Mr. Puniverse / Wendy Brenner -- My hand is just fine where it is / William Gay -- Anthropology / Andrea Lee -- Memorial Day / Mark Richard -- Flight patterns / Cynthia Shearer -- Erskine Caldwell : the journey from Tobacco Road / Hal Crowther -- Letter from Sister : what we learned at the P.O. / Tony Earley -- Homage to Halliburton / Susan Sontag -- Turtlemania / Rick Bass -- From Fire notes / Larry Brown -- The most human sound / Rosanne Cash -- Hussy in the hood / Tim Gautreaux -- Horses and boys / Marianne Gingher -- The Faulkner thing / John Grisham -- Willie Morris, 1934-1999 / Donna Tartt -- The chess king of Decatur Street / Matthew Teague -- I'm not leaving until I eat this thing / John T. Edge -- Forbidden fruit / John Simpkins -- Grandma's table / Steve Yarbrough -- First tell me what kind of reader you are / Roy Blount Jr.-- Rose of Lebanon / William Faulkner -- Black death / Zora Neale Hurston -- Young nuclear physicist / Walker Percy -- Sermon with Meath / Barry Hannah -- Memories of a dead man walking / Sister Helen Prejean -- Jim White's yellow mind / Lee Durkee -- Banjo / Steve Martin -- Note in a bottle / Tom Piazza -- Feet in smoke / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Death in New Orleans, a romance / Billy Collins -- The beautiful bowel movement / John Updike -- At the young composers' concert / Donald Justice.