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 2, Fall 1992
". . . [Y]ou have a well-designed, finely crafted magazine that feels as good in the hand as it does in the mind."—John B. Kachuba
Commentary by Rich Cohen. Fiction by Willie Morris, William J. Slattery, and Cynthia Shearer. Photo Essay by Eudora Welty. Poetry by X.J. Kennedy, Roy Blount Jr., and more.
COLUMNS & COMMENTARY
Polly Triumphant
Go for it, young man. Then simmer down.
by Dave Shiflett
Blanks
Hollywood snatches Betty Lou’s handbag.
by Charles Taylor
Joseph Mitchell
One New Yorker Inspects another.
by Rich Cohen
FEATURES
Coming off the Back of Brasstown Bald
Risk-taking make easy (close your eyes).
by James Kilgo
The Great Fried Chicken Conundrum
Secrets revealed, mad delights, a million downed chickens.
by Ted Roberts
Style with Meaning
As pimp or principal, the Memphian earns plaudits.
by Steve Vineberg
Basketball Season
Requiem of a Mississippi cheerleader.
by Donna Tartt
Back to Bob’s
Our Yankee nutrition expert plumbs the depth.
by Rich Cohen
Photo Essay
by Eudora Welty
FICTION
Asphalt
A leader of the Delta, evoked.
by Willie Morris
Dogman
Big moment/big deal.
by William J. Slattery
Flight Patterns
A father’s elusive love.
by Cynthia Shearer
POETRY
Zeus Retired, by Michael Chitwood
One Mean Kid, by X.J. Kennedy
Song of Miranda Lalisle, by Roy Blount, Jr.
In Memoriam, by X. J. Kennedy
Girls Live Longer, by John Nixon, Jr.
Cover: Photograph: by Eudora Welty of a wooden suspension bridge in Byram, Mississippi. From the © Eudora Welty Collection—Mississippi Department of Archives and History.