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 20, Spring 1998
“I adore the praise of the public, no mistake. But the primary motive must be unpublic. Much more, I’d guess, the inner journey of the imagination itself. There is the ecstasy.” — Barry Hannah in “Why I Write”
Featuring Carson McCullers. Fiction by Jill McCorkle. Essays by Alan Jacobs and Barry Hannah on “Why I Write.” Poetry with Charles Wright. “Southern Dining” by John T. Edge.
Other contributors include Hal Crowther, Julia Reed, Roy Blount, Jr., P. Revess, Tom Piazza, and Randall Curb.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Dealer’s Choice
by Hal Crowther
Waving Not Drowning
by Julia Reed
Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.
Southern Dining
by John T. Edge
Southern Gallery
Editor’s Box
Comics
by P. Revess
Southern Music
by Tom Piazza
Book Review
by Randall Curb
Poetry
by Charles Wright
FEATURES
Separate Worlds
by Jim Yardley
Illumination and Night Glare
by Carson McCullers
Closing the Book
by Edward Humes
ESSAYS
Why I Write
by Barry Hannah
What I was (Afraid of)
by Alan Jacobs
Your Husband Is Cheating on Us
A story by Jill McCorkle
Cover: Illustration by Scott Eagle