This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Ben Fountain
About
Ben Fountain’s most recent book is Beautiful Country Burn Again, which won the Texas Institute of Letters’ Carr P. Collins Award for nonfiction. His work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and his debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He grew up in North Carolina and has lived in Texas the past thirty years.