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Check out the “Best Southern Books of All Time” feature in the current Oxford American magazine, for which both Michael Griffith and John Grammer were judges, and see if you agree.

And if you can get your hands on a copy of the magazine, John also recommends:

I think most of us will be able to recognize ourselves in Diane Roberts’ piece on writing and procrastination, entitled “Notwriting.” See also the poem “Itinerant” by our Sewanee neighbor Caki Wilkinson. A rich issue throughout, really.

So there’s a good reason for the cosmic musical pairing going down this week in Bryant Park, NYC: to commemorate the publication of this anthology! Peter Terzian’s collection Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers On The Albums That Changed Their Lives features essays by both John Jeremiah Sullivan and James Wood.

Congratulations to Jill Carpenter! One of her essays was selected by the Union of Concerned Scientists to appear in the forthcoming Penguin anthology, Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming. Can’t wait to read the published piece, Jill. How inspiring!