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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.

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Justin Taylor

About

Justin Taylor is the author of the novel Reboot, forthcoming in early 2024. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Baffler, and Bookforum. He is the director of the MFA program at Sewanee, the University of the South.

Articles

Issue 119, Winter 2022

Not Country, Not Western, Just West

I’ve seen her play in an open field at sunset, I’ve seen her play by herself in a barn, and I’ve seen her play in a deconsecrated church at the edge of the high desert.

By Justin Taylor
Issue 123, Winter 2023

Some Ballad Folks

For most of the history of ballad collection, it was standard practice to ignore the stories of the people whose ballads one collected.

By Justin Taylor