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The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the South.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    "If the world were different, I would be different. But it’s not the end. There is one more thing to tell."

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  3. 2 hours ago

    At heart, a comedic vision—ending in life. Pulsing at the center of Lewis Nordan's work is a yearning for love.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    "Let’s go to someplace that you think they’ll listen,” she said. So they packed his VW bus and went to Los Angeles.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    "Home, I follow the roads passing the fruit orchards and the roaring white sheds of honey."

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Townes placed his arms on Susanna's shoulders and said, “If Guy loves you, I love you.”

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  7. 7 hours ago

    The 1993 novel WOLF WHISTLE, a fictional retelling of Emmett Till's murder, remains Nordan’s lasting achievement.

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  8. 8 hours ago

    Just a beautiful piece.

    NOW ONLINE: "A House of Crossed Logs, Finding Lewis Nordan," by w/ :
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  9. 8 hours ago

    "The peach-flavored white lightning / in a George Dickel bottle. For years I resisted."

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  10. 9 hours ago

    MUSIC OF THE SWAP—really all of Lewis Nordan's early work—reads as preparation for the acclaimed novel WOLF WHISTLE.

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  11. Apr 13

    first issue came today. Pumped to read.

    1:35 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details
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  13. 10 hours ago

    The house, the bridge, the grocery, the merger. Relive 's exploration of southern writer Lewis Nordan.

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  14. 12 hours ago

    Now online: "Molasses," a poem by Nancy K. Pearson.

    7:15 AM - 14 Apr 2016 · Details
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  15. 12 hours ago

    Townes would suddenly appear, the only soul who seemed to recognize the sadness invisible to the rest of the world.

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  16. Apr 13

    Townes improvised a song on the spot: “No deal, you can’t sell that stuff to me / I’m going back to Tennessee..."

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  17. Apr 13

    The first song Guy Clark finished when he got to Nashville was a farewell to the west coast.

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  18. Apr 13

    "Guy and Susanna were married partners. Guy and Townes were best friends. Susanna and Townes were soulmates."

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  19. Apr 13

    "Down the road in a cloud of smoke / To some land that I ain’t bought, bought, bought..."

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  21. Apr 13

    Guy Clark liked to say the dobros he made were more like toasters than guitars.

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