Magazine

Issue 3, Winter 1993

"This quarterly has tons of promise."—The USA Today

"Elegantly designed...this is fresh, original writing, a pleasure to read."—the New Orleans Times-Picayune

"The most promising literary magazine in the nation."—The Memphis Commercial-Appeal

"An excellent new literary magazine."—The Lufkin (Texas)

"Could become a journal of some of the finest writing the South has to offer."—(North Carolina) Spectator

THE VISION OF ESTHER BY CLEM
The quest of a handsome doctor, the love of a plain woman.
by Barry Hannah

EAT
Some dinners you can’t ever leave.
by Brad Barkley

LEE STAGGERS
Spike Lee’s vision thing.
by Charles Taylor

R.E.M. FOR THE PEOPLE
Four Georgian hipsters analyzed.
by Elizabeth Wurtzel

VLADIMIR & STANLEY
by Steve Vineberg

DOWN THE CREEK
On the trail of alligator turtles, cow-eating panthers & concrete.
by Thomas McNamee

DIXIE DYNAMITE
An unsolved murder still beckons.
by Alan Huffman

THE KILLING OF AN EAGLE EDITOR
Shooting on the Square: the Faulkner Connection.
by Joel Williamson

John Grisham: On sex, violence, Hollywood and Pee Wee Herman.

THE PEPPED-UP FETISH
by X. J. Kennedy

COVER CHARGE
by Charles Bukowski

THE BUDWEISER EAGLE
by X. J. Kennedy

THE SACK OF THE CITY OF GOD
by Michael Chitwood

U.S. PORN QUEEN (Ret.)
by Fred Chappell

MORTIFICATION IN MONTMARTRE
by Jeanne Steig

CURMUDGEON AND SLAYER
by Actoo Theodophilus

Cover Art: by Tom Bachtell.