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Title: Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing by Mark Smirnoff, Rick Bragg, John Grisham, Rick Bass, Larry Brown, Roy Blount Jr., John Updike, Susan Sontag, Steve Martin, Donna Tartt ISBN: 1-58818-081-6 Publisher: Hill Street Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: perfect for reading on the go
Comment: The idea of "the best of the Oxford American" brings out a lot of expectations. This magazine has been the home for a lot of special writing. This book provides some of those moments. I especially enjoyed the narrative of the small town photographer burdened by the unwelcome insights of his coworkers and the blank misunderstandings of his Disney World roadtripping friends. I think that the criticism by Tony Earley would have made just as good an introduction to this book as did Rick Bragg's more metaphorical observation that this writing is "heavy on the salt."
I would recommend this book for anyone that wants to read about the South as it actually is -- unique, history-addled, and genuinely "salty".

Rating: 5
Summary: Truly the best of the best
Comment: This collection of works--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reportage--by the biggest names writing in or about the South is a real treasure. For those already familiar with "the New Yorker of the South" it will remind those what have made the magazine so special for so many years, and for those who have not discovered the magazine, BOA will be a great introduction to the best in Southern belles lettres. The book, like the magazine itself, is a little trad and not good on commenting on the lives of blacks, gays/lesbians, and immigrants to the South, but there is much for everyone to enjoy here.

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