Oxford American
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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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“In popular culture, name dropping the sweet potato conveys a certain downhome specificity.”
—From the archive, @ayanacontreras.bsky.social shares “Sweet Potato Sounds” as she shares its history and appearances in music, movies, and memoirs.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/vuiJ3
—From the archive, @ayanacontreras.bsky.social shares “Sweet Potato Sounds” as she shares its history and appearances in music, movies, and memoirs.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/vuiJ3
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“In popular culture, name dropping the sweet potato conveys a certain downhome specificity.”
—From the archive, @ayanacontreras.bsky.social shares “Sweet Potato Sounds” as she shares its history and appearances in music, movies, and memoirs.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/vuiJ3
—From the archive, @ayanacontreras.bsky.social shares “Sweet Potato Sounds” as she shares its history and appearances in music, movies, and memoirs.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/vuiJ3
“As an eighty-nine-year-old, he doesn’t look a day over eighty-eight. Weak lungs or not, he still sings like an angel.”
—From the archive, David Kirby speaks to the longevity of Willie Nelson, citing taekwondo and playing guitar as means of self-care.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/G4faD
—From the archive, David Kirby speaks to the longevity of Willie Nelson, citing taekwondo and playing guitar as means of self-care.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/G4faD
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“As an eighty-nine-year-old, he doesn’t look a day over eighty-eight. Weak lungs or not, he still sings like an angel.”
—From the archive, David Kirby speaks to the longevity of Willie Nelson, citing taekwondo and playing guitar as means of self-care.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/G4faD
—From the archive, David Kirby speaks to the longevity of Willie Nelson, citing taekwondo and playing guitar as means of self-care.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/G4faD
“This music was the glue that made Austin groove.”
—From the archive, Bill Bentley dives into Charlie Sexton’s career, starting with his debut performance at the Continental Club the day before he turned ten years old.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/KXtl1
—From the archive, Bill Bentley dives into Charlie Sexton’s career, starting with his debut performance at the Continental Club the day before he turned ten years old.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/KXtl1
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“This music was the glue that made Austin groove.”
—From the archive, Bill Bentley dives into Charlie Sexton’s career, starting with his debut performance at the Continental Club the day before he turned ten years old.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/KXtl1
—From the archive, Bill Bentley dives into Charlie Sexton’s career, starting with his debut performance at the Continental Club the day before he turned ten years old.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/KXtl1
#EyesontheSouth | Ark-La-Tex | Cody Cobb
From the archive, photographer Cody Cobb captures scenes he “discovered while exploring dirt roads, abandonments, swamps, and pine forests of northwest Louisiana, east Texas, and south Arkansas.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/X53Ib
From the archive, photographer Cody Cobb captures scenes he “discovered while exploring dirt roads, abandonments, swamps, and pine forests of northwest Louisiana, east Texas, and south Arkansas.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/X53Ib
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Ark-La-Tex | Cody Cobb
From the archive, photographer Cody Cobb captures scenes he “discovered while exploring dirt roads, abandonments, swamps, and pine forests of northwest Louisiana, east Texas, and south Arkansas.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/X53Ib
From the archive, photographer Cody Cobb captures scenes he “discovered while exploring dirt roads, abandonments, swamps, and pine forests of northwest Louisiana, east Texas, and south Arkansas.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/X53Ib
The Austin LIVE! Music Issue is shipping out now! We’re excited for you all to experience this special issue, limited-edition LP, and merch collection. Get yours today for delivery straight to your door.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/6v16P
🔗: https://shorturl.at/6v16P
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Austin LIVE! Music Issue is shipping out now! We’re excited for you all to experience this special issue, limited-edition LP, and merch collection. Get yours today for delivery straight to your door.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/6v16P
🔗: https://shorturl.at/6v16P
“No single disc’s worth of songs can claim to capture the many inflections of the Texas sound.”
—From the archive, Rick Clark compiles a list of 25 tracks containing notes of the American experience and the Texas borderlands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/e4UPf
—From the archive, Rick Clark compiles a list of 25 tracks containing notes of the American experience and the Texas borderlands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/e4UPf
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“No single disc’s worth of songs can claim to capture the many inflections of the Texas sound.”
—From the archive, Rick Clark compiles a list of 25 tracks containing notes of the American experience and the Texas borderlands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/e4UPf
—From the archive, Rick Clark compiles a list of 25 tracks containing notes of the American experience and the Texas borderlands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/e4UPf
“I treated each person with an equal measure of respect and dignity, a photographic utopia.”
—Arkansas-based photographer Andrew Kilgore is profiled by @jbesonen.bsky.social as he shares the backstories behind 1970s photographs of Fayetteville and the Ozarks.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Vhbqj
—Arkansas-based photographer Andrew Kilgore is profiled by @jbesonen.bsky.social as he shares the backstories behind 1970s photographs of Fayetteville and the Ozarks.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Vhbqj
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“I treated each person with an equal measure of respect and dignity, a photographic utopia.”
—Arkansas-based photographer Andrew Kilgore is profiled by @jbesonen.bsky.social as he shares the backstories behind 1970s photographs of Fayetteville and the Ozarks.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Vhbqj
—Arkansas-based photographer Andrew Kilgore is profiled by @jbesonen.bsky.social as he shares the backstories behind 1970s photographs of Fayetteville and the Ozarks.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Vhbqj
“I cannot help but wonder what stories are not written today—not for a lack of a willing author, but due to an imperiled free press.”
—Lauren Stroh details “The Angolite,” the prison news magazine produced within Louisiana’s State Penitentiary.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/QqC9U
—Lauren Stroh details “The Angolite,” the prison news magazine produced within Louisiana’s State Penitentiary.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/QqC9U
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“I cannot help but wonder what stories are not written today—not for a lack of a willing author, but due to an imperiled free press.”
—Lauren Stroh details “The Angolite,” the prison news magazine produced within Louisiana’s State Penitentiary.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/QqC9U
—Lauren Stroh details “The Angolite,” the prison news magazine produced within Louisiana’s State Penitentiary.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/QqC9U
#EyesontheSouth | Florida Boys | Josh Aronson
In his five-year photographic project, Florida-based artist Aronson “broadens what boyhood can look like: gentle, vulnerable, and rooted in place.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Bhmpl
In his five-year photographic project, Florida-based artist Aronson “broadens what boyhood can look like: gentle, vulnerable, and rooted in place.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Bhmpl
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Florida Boys | Josh Aronson
In his five-year photographic project, Florida-based artist Aronson “broadens what boyhood can look like: gentle, vulnerable, and rooted in place.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Bhmpl
In his five-year photographic project, Florida-based artist Aronson “broadens what boyhood can look like: gentle, vulnerable, and rooted in place.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Bhmpl
Join us again on Sunday, December 14, at the legendary Antone’s Nightclub, featuring a DJ Set by Adrian Quesada and a live performance by The Point. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-liv...
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Join us again on Sunday, December 14, at the legendary Antone’s Nightclub, featuring a DJ Set by Adrian Quesada and a live performance by The Point. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-liv...
Join us at Waterloo Records on Saturday, December 13 from 4-6 p.m. to be one of the first to hear the compilation album, featuring live recordings by some of Austin’s most beloved music makers. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-liv...
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Join us at Waterloo Records on Saturday, December 13 from 4-6 p.m. to be one of the first to hear the compilation album, featuring live recordings by some of Austin’s most beloved music makers. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-liv...
The Oxford American is excited to announce two consecutive FREE events celebrating the launch of the Austin Live! Music Issue + LP.
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Oxford American is excited to announce two consecutive FREE events celebrating the launch of the Austin Live! Music Issue + LP.
“It would have been easy enough to beg off, but that wasn’t in the rancher’s nature.”
—From the archive, Bret Anthony Johnston draws from Waylon Jennings’s 1977 classic “Luckenbach, Texas,” featuring Willie Nelson, in his story “The Basics of Love.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/g0LrJ
—From the archive, Bret Anthony Johnston draws from Waylon Jennings’s 1977 classic “Luckenbach, Texas,” featuring Willie Nelson, in his story “The Basics of Love.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/g0LrJ
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“It would have been easy enough to beg off, but that wasn’t in the rancher’s nature.”
—From the archive, Bret Anthony Johnston draws from Waylon Jennings’s 1977 classic “Luckenbach, Texas,” featuring Willie Nelson, in his story “The Basics of Love.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/g0LrJ
—From the archive, Bret Anthony Johnston draws from Waylon Jennings’s 1977 classic “Luckenbach, Texas,” featuring Willie Nelson, in his story “The Basics of Love.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/g0LrJ
“Mess with Willie Nelson and the next thing you’ll see is the wrong end of a gun held by the Devil himself, Robert Paul English.”
—From the archive, Joe Nick Patoski dives into the rich friendship between Willie Nelson and his drummer, the late Paul English.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/so1vl
—From the archive, Joe Nick Patoski dives into the rich friendship between Willie Nelson and his drummer, the late Paul English.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/so1vl
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Mess with Willie Nelson and the next thing you’ll see is the wrong end of a gun held by the Devil himself, Robert Paul English.”
—From the archive, Joe Nick Patoski dives into the rich friendship between Willie Nelson and his drummer, the late Paul English.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/so1vl
—From the archive, Joe Nick Patoski dives into the rich friendship between Willie Nelson and his drummer, the late Paul English.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/so1vl
“Not only are immigration processes complex, but, under the Trump administration, the rules keep changing.”
—In part four of his ICE in Key West Series, Zack Ford speaks to the mounting anxieties shared in a city impacted by ICE detainments without due process.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/SSQyN
—In part four of his ICE in Key West Series, Zack Ford speaks to the mounting anxieties shared in a city impacted by ICE detainments without due process.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/SSQyN
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Not only are immigration processes complex, but, under the Trump administration, the rules keep changing.”
—In part four of his ICE in Key West Series, Zack Ford speaks to the mounting anxieties shared in a city impacted by ICE detainments without due process.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/SSQyN
—In part four of his ICE in Key West Series, Zack Ford speaks to the mounting anxieties shared in a city impacted by ICE detainments without due process.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/SSQyN
#EyesontheSouth | Ozark Giraffes | Chuck Davis
In this feature, Davis reclaims Ozark vernacular architecture through photography that embodies the “resilience of the Ozark people.” The show opens today at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RDPH0
In this feature, Davis reclaims Ozark vernacular architecture through photography that embodies the “resilience of the Ozark people.” The show opens today at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RDPH0
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Ozark Giraffes | Chuck Davis
In this feature, Davis reclaims Ozark vernacular architecture through photography that embodies the “resilience of the Ozark people.” The show opens today at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RDPH0
In this feature, Davis reclaims Ozark vernacular architecture through photography that embodies the “resilience of the Ozark people.” The show opens today at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RDPH0
“I’m going to tell Grandmama that her belief is the only reason I’m still alive.”
—From the archive, Kiese Laymon traces Black Southern life, love, and labor through familial ties and OutKast artists Big Boi and André 3000.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rOiZr
—From the archive, Kiese Laymon traces Black Southern life, love, and labor through familial ties and OutKast artists Big Boi and André 3000.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rOiZr
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“I’m going to tell Grandmama that her belief is the only reason I’m still alive.”
—From the archive, Kiese Laymon traces Black Southern life, love, and labor through familial ties and OutKast artists Big Boi and André 3000.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rOiZr
—From the archive, Kiese Laymon traces Black Southern life, love, and labor through familial ties and OutKast artists Big Boi and André 3000.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rOiZr
Happy Halloween from the Oxford American. This year, we’re sharing five tales to get you in the spirit. Head to the https://OxfordAmerican.org to read these stories . . . if you dare.
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Happy Halloween from the Oxford American. This year, we’re sharing five tales to get you in the spirit. Head to the https://OxfordAmerican.org to read these stories . . . if you dare.
#EyesontheSouth | Halloween Queens of Club Riviera | Janice Engsberg
This new feature surfaces portraits taken at a 1971 Halloween Drag Ball in Newport, Kentucky. These images are now preserved at the @faulknermorgan.bsky.social.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/ErMxG
This new feature surfaces portraits taken at a 1971 Halloween Drag Ball in Newport, Kentucky. These images are now preserved at the @faulknermorgan.bsky.social.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/ErMxG
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Halloween Queens of Club Riviera | Janice Engsberg
This new feature surfaces portraits taken at a 1971 Halloween Drag Ball in Newport, Kentucky. These images are now preserved at the @faulknermorgan.bsky.social.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/ErMxG
This new feature surfaces portraits taken at a 1971 Halloween Drag Ball in Newport, Kentucky. These images are now preserved at the @faulknermorgan.bsky.social.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/ErMxG
“The ethic prizes engagement over polish: compost, rearrange, let the work keep working.”
—Alexandra Martinez profiles Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Janae Hernandez as they make art from non-native plants that speaks to gentrification and migration.
🔗: shorturl.at/jp9sP
—Alexandra Martinez profiles Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Janae Hernandez as they make art from non-native plants that speaks to gentrification and migration.
🔗: shorturl.at/jp9sP
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“The ethic prizes engagement over polish: compost, rearrange, let the work keep working.”
—Alexandra Martinez profiles Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Janae Hernandez as they make art from non-native plants that speaks to gentrification and migration.
🔗: shorturl.at/jp9sP
—Alexandra Martinez profiles Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Janae Hernandez as they make art from non-native plants that speaks to gentrification and migration.
🔗: shorturl.at/jp9sP
Get a glimpse into the Austin Music Issue with the Oxford American’s Editor-in-Chief Sara A. Lewis. You can pre-order your copy of the Austin Music Issue at oxfordamericangoods.org 🎶🪩
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Get a glimpse into the Austin Music Issue with the Oxford American’s Editor-in-Chief Sara A. Lewis. You can pre-order your copy of the Austin Music Issue at oxfordamericangoods.org 🎶🪩
“She imagined Michael reading this letter on his cot in Vietnam, under a sweltering tent full of other men reading letters.”
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“She imagined Michael reading this letter on his cot in Vietnam, under a sweltering tent full of other men reading letters.”
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
#EyesontheSouth | Democratic Spaces | Kate Medley
In this collection from the archive, documentary photographer @katemedley.bsky.social explores Southern common spaces in her project “Somewhere Else.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AOayL
In this collection from the archive, documentary photographer @katemedley.bsky.social explores Southern common spaces in her project “Somewhere Else.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AOayL
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Democratic Spaces | Kate Medley
In this collection from the archive, documentary photographer @katemedley.bsky.social explores Southern common spaces in her project “Somewhere Else.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AOayL
In this collection from the archive, documentary photographer @katemedley.bsky.social explores Southern common spaces in her project “Somewhere Else.”
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AOayL
“She was taking back her power.”
—In a feature article from @burnaway.org Shanley Poole profiles artist Carrie Hart, spotlighting the collaborative, conversational creation of her zines that revolve around making others feel seen.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/eGCvv
—In a feature article from @burnaway.org Shanley Poole profiles artist Carrie Hart, spotlighting the collaborative, conversational creation of her zines that revolve around making others feel seen.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/eGCvv
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“She was taking back her power.”
—In a feature article from @burnaway.org Shanley Poole profiles artist Carrie Hart, spotlighting the collaborative, conversational creation of her zines that revolve around making others feel seen.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/eGCvv
—In a feature article from @burnaway.org Shanley Poole profiles artist Carrie Hart, spotlighting the collaborative, conversational creation of her zines that revolve around making others feel seen.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/eGCvv
Introducing the Austin Music Issue featuring @willienelsonmusic.bsky.social ! The 27th annual Southern Music Issue takes readers straight into the heart of Austin’s legendary live music scene. Pre-order your print edition + optional limited-edition vinyl LP now: https://rb.gy/m1p6y4
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Introducing the Austin Music Issue featuring @willienelsonmusic.bsky.social ! The 27th annual Southern Music Issue takes readers straight into the heart of Austin’s legendary live music scene. Pre-order your print edition + optional limited-edition vinyl LP now: https://rb.gy/m1p6y4