In this issue: Why America still needs the South. Dueling honor on southern campuses. The secrets of Janis Joplin. Confessions of a Chapel Hill liberal. New poetry by Michael McFee. A visit to Virginia’s “Bridge of God.”
"The use of the F-word was completely unnecessary. I am very disappointed."
"Nostalgia's just not what it used to be."
"Herbert rushed to Greene's aid, armed with a nine-and-a-half-inch knife and a pistol."
"So far Dan Sears has 'logged over 1300 miles,' and he has found some of the msot artfully crafted images we've ever published."
"Ever since Thomas Jefferson proclaimed the Natural Bridge to be 'the most sublime of nature's works,' visitors have been flocking to this limestone arch."
"When we talk of the South, are we talking about the South of Southern Living, a South that is enviably affluent and peopled almost exclusively by gracious whites who seem to do little more than cook gourmet meals and tend to their luscious gardens?"
University Press of Florida, 1999
Louisiana State University Press, 1999; Mercer University Press, 1999
University of North Carolina Press, 1999
University of Georgia Press, 1999
University of North Carolina Press, 1998
University of North Carolina Press, 1998
University of Missouri Press, 1998; New York University Press, 1997
University of Georgia Press, 1997
"Although Janis Joplin adopted Southern Comfort as her drink of choice, neither whiskey nor the South brought her much comfort."
"I became a liberal because my only liberal friend, Frank Chandler, was murdered."
". . . we were in jail, being frisked and questioned . . ."
