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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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Michael A. Gonzales

About

In the 1990s, Michael A. Gonzales wrote music features for Vibe, the Source, XXL, and Complex. He has written cover stories for Wax Poetics, the Village Voice, and Essence. Currently Gonzales writes essays for Oldster.com, CrimeReads.com, and the Wire, while his fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen, Killens Review, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the Oxford American.

Articles

Issue 117, Summer 2022

Really Gone

Years later he’d swear that “just use what you have” was the best advice his daddy had ever given him.

By Michael A. Gonzales
Issue 127, Winter 2024

Jazze Pha and Cee-Lo Green’s Lost Album

In 2006, Happy Hour joined the pantheon of unreleased discs that might’ve been cultural contenders.

By Michael A. Gonzales