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.
Tom Graves
About
Tom Graves of Memphis, has written for Musician, the New York Times Book Review, and Rolling Stone. (In The OA’s first Southern Music issue he wrote about Bill Haney, the first-ever Elvis impersonator.) Mr. Graves, first novel, Pullers, is set on the arm-wrestling circuit, and was published in November 1998 by Hastings House.
(Summer Issue, 1999)