Columns & Departments

Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff

South Toward Home
COLORS THAT BLEED
by Warwick Sabin

I Don’t Hate It!
“THERE'S YOUR STORY” 
by Jack Pendarvis

Local Fare
THE SECRET WAS IN THE SAUCE
by John T. Edge

Politics
JUDY BONDS (1952–2011)
by Hal Crowther

Letters
THE RED AND THE BLACK
by Makkada B. Selah

Letters
GROWING UP ON A TANDEM BICYCLE
by Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

Music
FINGER-LICKIN’ RAP
by Ben Westhoff

Education
IVORY TOWERS
by Virginia A.K. Moran

Features

DEAN’S CRASH
A crash course in Faulkner family history.
by Joshua Clark

FAMILY BLOOD
My brother's loaded gun.
by Sarah Courteau

ANOTHER LONG HAUL
Mack truck daddy. 
a story by Thomas Cooper

Poetry

Homage to J.E. Pitts
by Louis Bourgeois

I, You, Reader, Stoned Man, Silly Lady 
by Peter Cooley

Allowed Into Morning 
by Clifford Paul Fetters

Captain Sewer 
by Leslie St. John

I Believe
by Bernadette Geyer

Intersection
by Richard T. Raunch 

Books

Reviews by Alexander Provan, Scott Saul, William Caverlee, J.B. Slogan, Kevin Brockmeier, and John Oliver Hodges

BARRY HANNAH AND THE WORLD
by Burke Nixon, Rick Bass, Donna Tartt, Scott Howdeshell, M.O. Walsh, Elizabeth Kaiser, Michael Bible, Beth Ann Fennelly, Humphreys McGee, Sven Birkerts, Jamie Quatro, Jack Pendarvis, Maude Schuyler Clay, Jefferson Baker, Wyatt Prunty, Bob Shacochis,Brad Watson, Neil White, Philip Beidler, Philip Stephens, Abigail Greenbaum, Lisa Howorth, Adam Shemper, Don Noble

 Cover: Barry Hannah in Oxford, Mississippi. Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay