Last weekend, twenty-five men and women in Conway, Arkansas, put their hands on the red, waxed body of a Ford F-150 truckfour days later, only one person was left standing. The winner drove the prize home.The Stuck on a Truck competition, as the event is k nown, started in 2001 as part of the Toad Suck Daze festival that takes place each year in May

North Carolina photographer Christopher Sims has been to Guantanamo Bay twice to capture the things he thinks are overlooked.

Kevin Gordon was a favorite of our friend and music columnist William Gay. When the opportunity arose to stream the albumGlorylandin its entirety, we decided to refer to the wisdom and eloquence of William, who said it best inhis last column for us.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today thatThe Oxford Americanis one of 78 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Arts in Media grant.

Every year here at Bill and Dave’s we have our own version of March Madness. We take 64 of the best small literary magazines and let them play it out, no holds barred, determining unequivocally the best small magazine in the country. I don’t know if you’ ve been following this years satellite video feed over at LSPN, but things can get ugly, and last week after their big win overThe Believer,the fans down in Athens burned their copies of the Chicago Manuel of Style

Pat Cochran and his wife,Mary Elizabeth, have a precocious young son named Jack and a daughter on the way. Though he'd rather live in France, he currently resides in his favorite Stateside town, Oxford, Mississippi.

Louisiana Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne and the Publisher of the Oxford American Warwick Sabin announce Louisiana Music will be featured nationally in the Oxford...

The plan is to introduce things about Louisiana you dont even know, The Oxford American publisher Warwick Sabin said this afternoon at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Sabin and Louisiana Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne shared the stage to announce that the sta te will partner with the Arkansas-based Southern culture magazine to produce the magazines 2012 [

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