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Congratulations to @lucasloredo, whose #SouthernJourneys essay “Mother Tongue” is out today in #BestAmerican2019 Travel Writing! Read the piece in full at the link below. Photo by Tria Giovan #Issue101 https://t.co/LXIkHigkSb
“‘Now Larry,’ the letter read. ‘I know you don’t know shit about art but DO NOT destroy my work.”
—From @BrittaLokting’s “The Feral Child.” Art via the Tom McNease Estate Collection #SouthernJourneys #Issue105 https://t.co/CP4KlXV32B
Now at OA Goods: The Southern Journeys Collection, featuring our previous four Southern Journeys issues, plus an exclusive new beach tote perfect for wherever Summer takes you! Link in bio. #OxfordAmerican #SouthernJourneys #Magazine #TheSouth #Southern #Totebag
@R_LMartin reads from “Let Me Tell You About Coal Creek,” her #SouthernJourneys essay in our Summer Issue. Check out the piece in its entirety at the link #Issue105 https://t.co/K4b65Y3T87
“The boy sits next to me. Not MacKaye; damn, no one could be that guy. I mean the boy I was, in that audience.”
—In “The Sound of One Head Exploding,” @dv_murrell reflects on punk rock and middle age. Art by Jason Stout #Issue105 #SouthernJourneys https://t.co/1fIt9gyxnf
“Janie’s sexual awakening is written with the fervor of a fever and the fever of a prayer.”
—@ReginaMPorter studies Zora Neale Hurston’s lessons in writing a love story in “Sweet Things,” an essay from #Issue105. Art by @CarlaJayHarris #SouthernJourneys
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New at OA Goods: The Southern Journeys Collection, featuring our previous four Southern Journeys issues, plus an exclusive new beach tote perfect for wherever Summer takes you! #OxfordAmerican #SouthernJourneys #Magazine #TheSouth #Southern #tote #beachtote
“Turned out some minstrels from Aspen had broken down on the same road we’d just come over and were playing bluegrass for tips to get on the road again.”
—“Where the Lee Highway Goes,” by @ronnilundy Art by @Jason_Stout_Art #SouthernJourneys #Issue105 https://t.co/iOlr8bBURe
“We come to bars to escape, I tell them. We drink to transform, I say. Inside the confines of a good bar, more is possible.”
—From “Social Engineering” by @johntedge in our Summer 2019 issue. Art by @johannawomann #Issue105 #SouthernJourneys https://t.co/5uesIhlnW2
“Good bars reinforce my belief in human nature.”
—@johntedge spends a night at the Atomic Lounge in Birmingham and reflects on a bar’s many functions in “Social Engineering,” a Points South essay from #Issue105. Art by @johannawomann #SouthernJourneys https://t.co/wij6jIw0C4
“ALL ROADS LEAD TO RUSKIN”
—Matthew Sherrill journeys from Tennessee to Georgia and Florida in search of bygone socialist utopias founded on the ideals of English reformer John Ruskin in “Ruskin USA.” Photo by @TristanWheelock #SouthernJourneys #Issue105 https://t.co/yY9IfmK3jI
Summer is here, and OA Goods has apparel for wherever your Southern journeys take you! Link in bio. #Summer2019 #OAGoods #OxfordAmerican #SouthernJourneys #thesouth
“He’s sold all of his guitars and I don’t ask about them because they’re a dream of another life, a dream he has put away for good.”
—"Mars Rover," an essay by @MaryUMiller in our Summer 2019 #SouthernJourneys issue. Art by @Jason_Stout_Art #Issue105 https://t.co/mxjdpz7SqG
“I’d go to the bar early to watch them sound check—I loved the ‘check, check . . . check one-two-three, check one-two’”
—In “Mars Rover,” @MaryUMiller recalls nights spent watching her brother on tour. Art by @bitteryeti #Issue105 #SouthernJourneys https://t.co/fYHjunUCAk
“There was always something lost, a jacket or a wallet or his keys, which made me nervous. I had never lost so much as an earring.”
–@MaryUMiller on her brother's music career in "Mars Rover," from #Issue105. Art by @bitteryeti #SouthernJourneys
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Haven't picked up your copy of the Southern Journeys issue yet? Take a peek! (Then order your copy at Oxford American Goods.) Link in bio.#OxfordAmerican #SouthernJourneys #Magazine #TheSouth #Southern
“The horizon is so vast in the Delta; the land is so flat. I find it hard to describe its hugeness.”
–@eliza_borne explores the emotional resonance of travel in her Editor’s Letter for #Issue105, on newsstands now! Photo by Tatum Shaw #SouthernJourneys https://t.co/Oito2Up8Lk
“Or, we could take the scenic route.”
—In her Editor’s Letter for our latest #SouthernJourneys issue, @eliza_borne recounts a journey of her own and reflects on travel as a means of understanding. #Issue105 is on newsstands now! Photo by Tatum Shaw. https://t.co/iN5KOv6FNh
“But God is everywhere, a theologian might remind me. The ‘church’ is a metonymy: an invisible building made entirely of redeemed souls.”
—From Jamie Quatro’s “Speed Away,” a #SouthernJourneys essay. Photo by David Andrews #Issue97 https://t.co/X0HDWskgJ6
One more week until our Summer issue hits newsstands! In the meantime, check out the table of contents for a sneak peek at our fourth annual #SouthernJourneys stories! Photo by Joe Buglewicz #Issue105 https://t.co/wUDAyuMiqt
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