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 13, August / September 1996
“Everything is grist for a writer’s mill. When something happens to us, we never simply chalk it up to experience and go on with our life—it is our life.” — Florence King in “Handmaidens”
Includes “A Photographic Essay” by Victoria Balaban. Featuring “Target Practice” by Chris Offutt, “Who Killed Susan Smith?” by Blanche McCrary Boyd, and “An Unsuitable Attachment” by Bailey White.
Also featuring work by Wendy Brenner, Roy Blount Jr., Hal Crowther, Tony Early, Mary Hood, Tom Rankin, and more.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
The Failed Southern Lady
by Florence King
Dealer’s Choice
by Hal Crowther
Comics
by P. Revess
Gone off up North
by Roy Blunt Jr.
Personal Essay
by Wendy Brenner
Out Back
by Tony Early
Roadside
by Caroline Langston
Home Page
by Elizabeth Forston Arroyo
Southern Dining
by Julia Reed
Southern Travel
by Mary Hood
Southern Books
by Humphreys McGee
Southern Scenes
by Tom Rankin
FEATURES
Who Killed Susan Smith?
by Blanche McCrary Boyd
An Unsuitable Attachment
by Bailey White
Target Practice
by Chris Offutt
Photographic Essay:
The Majestic Diner
The Majestic Food Shop, an Atlanta landmark, has been serving “Food That Pleases Since 1929.” Victoria Balaban, a student of phycology at nearby Emory University, and a frequent visitor to the Majestic, offers his impressions.
by Victoria Balaban