Oxford American

The Oxford American features the very best in Southern writing, while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won multiple National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Jesmyn Ward, Donald Harington, Sarah M. Broom, Donna Tartt, and Ernest J. Gaines. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey and Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times claims that the Oxford American "may be the liveliest literary magazine in America."

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SONGS FROM A ROOM

GOD BLESS LYLE LOVETT, and God Bless Texas • Lunch with the long tall Texan

FISH GREASE & GUITAR RIFFS • Victory Grill yesterday, today, and tomorrow

HILL COUNTRY • Texas music tradition at the Devil’s Backbone Tavern

AN UNQUIET APPROACH • Adrian Quesada’s restless music making in East Austin

ODE TO THE NORTH DOOR • Austin, Texas, February 2020

Dear Willie • A COLLECTIVE ODE TO THE OUTLAW ICON FROM FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND FANS

WHEN IT’S AN HONOR TO CRY • Sometimes you need to sob through a session

SWEET DREAMS • Hearing “Crazy” for the first time

Real Good Shit • Willie Nelson’s collaborations with Black women

DECORATING TIME • Making a record with my dad

A Definite Contrast • Willie Nelson and “The Live Music Capital of the World”

IN MOTION • How Willie Nelson taught me to be free

PUT HIM ON MOUNT RUSHMORE • Willie Nelson is America

One Night at Momo’s • Willie and Los Lonely Boys

WILLIE STORIES • Scenes from the 2003 Southern Music Issue

POP BELOVED • THE ODD AND ENDURING LEGACY OF THE REIVERS

ANY GIVEN THURSDAY • AN EVENING WITH AUSTIN’S JAZZ INTELLIGENTSIA

ASTRAL PROJECTION • GARY CLARK JR. REFRACTS THE BLUES IN HONEYDRIPPER

Circus of EGOS • Reading the farewell letters of Austin musicians

AIN’T IT A COLD, COLD WORLD? • The collected stories of Blaze Foley

My HONKY-TONK HEROES & ME • Scenes from three Austin spaces where the beer-drinking songs never stopped

NOBODY’S COOL • AN ORAL HISTORY OF TRAILER SPACE RECORDS

WHEN BOWIE MET VAUGHAN • THE BRIEF CREATIVE COLLISION OF TWO SUPERSTARS

THE SCENE • A Beginner’s Guide to Austin’s Landmark Venues

AUSTIN LIVE! Liner Notes • Southern Music Issue Vol. 27

1. Fire

2. Nightbeat

3. Town

4. Cold, Cold World

5. Solo Tú

6. I Ain’t Going Back

7. Blue Skies

Grocery in the Front, Party in the Back • Robert Shaw’s raucous barrelhouse blues

Lone Star Kind of Crazy • Butthole Surfers at the midpoint of Austin psych’s story

10. Catfish Blues

11. Nine Pound Hammer

12. Dalai Lama

Deep Cut • The surgical emotion of Patty Griffin

14. Life in Vain