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.
Paul Zollo
About
Paul Zollo is the author of Songwriters on Songwriting, a book of interviews published by Da Capo Press that features such artists as Dylan, Paul Simon, Carole King, Neil Young, and Mose Allison. Mr. Zollo says that one question no songwriter has satisfactorily answered is, How do you write a song? “But, as Dylan said, ‘That’s what makes it so attractive. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.’ Or, as Leonard Cohen said to me, ‘If I knew where the good songs came from, I would go there more often.’ ”
(Summer Issue, 1998)