I just got a picture published (I guess that's the right word) in the current print issue of
The Oxford American.
The Oxford American is a quarterly literary magazine that features writing and art from Southerners or about the South. Their tagline is "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing." They used my picture of the
Hokus Pokus Liquor neon sign in
Alexandria, Louisiana. It accompanies an article in the Race column titled "Adaption: The biology of shame," by
Solon Timothy Woodward, author of
Cadillac Orpheus: A Novel
. They sent me two copies of the edition in which my picture was used, as well as a subscription(!).
Here is part the opening paragraph:
I had chosen to work as a public-health doctor in Alexandria (pro-nounced "ellic"). As my family and I enter the city, we drive down Jackson Street. A neon ghost sign floats alongside Hokus Pokus Liquors, one of the few businesses that seems to have survived the decades.
