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.
Magazine
Issue 10, Winter 1996
“[T]he stories which connect us . . . have a much deeper worldly and spiritual significance. Stories, those explorations of the lonely self, are more important now than ever.” — Richard Bausch in “Stories from a Life”
Memoir by Richard Bausch. Short Story by Lynna Williams. Essays by Michael Hamphill and Mark Richardson. Hal Crowther writes about “Eating Rats in Vicksburg.” Other contributors include Florence King, Linda Peal, Bern Keating, Willie Morris, Joe Atkins, Steve Vineberg, Jonathon Miles, and Matthew Teague.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Down, Out, & About:
Como’s Laureate
Mr. Magazine
Kermit
Rhine Delta
The Failed Southern Lady:
Saving Our Confederate Daughters
by Florence King
Dealer’s Choice:
Eating Rats at Vicksburg
by Hal Crowther
Southern Travel:
In the Neighborhood of Tennessee Williams
by Linda Peal
Southern Food:
The Only Pot in Town
by Bern Keating
Southern Sports:
The Big Kick
by Willie Morris
Southern Music:
The Man Who Would Be King
by Joe Atkins
Southern Video:
The Yearling
by Steve Vineberg
Southern Books:
Phantom of the Delta
by Jonathon Miles
Southern Books:
How Do You like Your Blue-Eyed Boy Now?
by Matthew Teague
Comic:
Tales of Deep Irony
by P. Revess
FEATURES
Short Story:
Gazelles
by Lynna Williams
Memoir:
Stories from a Life
by Richard Bausch
Essays:
Beggars
by Michael Hamphill
Home for the Holidays
by Mark Richard
Photographs:
Black & White Photographs
by William Eggleston