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.
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)