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 19, Winter 1997
Religion in the South
“I think it’s safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.” — Flannery O’Connor
Features by Doug Cumming, Willie Morris, Laura Wexler, and John Holman. “Southern Gallery” by Terry Rowlett, Bernice King, Howard Finster, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, and Will Campbell. Other contributors include Mark Jarman, Tom Piazza, Eric Ormsby, Alan Jacobs, Terry Rowlett, and more.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Box
Dear OA
Dealer's Choice
by Hal Crowther
Waving not Drowning
by Julia Reed
Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.
Poetry
by Mark Jarman
Poetry
by Eric Ormsby
Book Review
by Alan Jacobs
Southern Music
by Tom Piazza
Theatre
by Steve Vineberg
Southern Scenes
by Michael A. Schwarz
Southern Scenes
by Terry Rowlett
FEATURES
Going to the Chapel
by Doug Cumming
Barry Moser's Bible
by Willie Morris
Voices in the Light
by Laura Wexler
Rita's Mystery
by John Holman
ESSAY
A Worn Path
by Tony Earley
SOUTHERN GALLERY
Terry Rowlett
Bernice King
Howard Finster
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
Will Campbell