A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Cynthia Shearer
About
Cynthia Shearer is the author of two works of fiction, The Wonder Book of the Air and The Celestial Jukebox, both of which originated as short fiction in the Oxford American. Formerly a curator of William Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, she now lives in Fort Worth, Texas.