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 7, May / June 1995
Includes a previously unpublished short story by William Faulkner, entitled “Rose of Lebanon,” with an introduction by Donald Kartiganer. Essays by Andrew Huggins, Larry Brown, and Guy Davenport. Reporting by Stacy Mattingly.
Other departments include Southern Humor with John Fergus Ryan, Southern Mayors with Thomas Easterling, and Southern Video with Steve Vineberg.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Down, Out & About:
Goin’ Back to Compton
Wind Chasers
the Rose Tattoo
Faulkner’s Paperboy
Southern Humor:
Too Much Stump Stukey
by John Fergus Ryan
Southern Travel:
One Night at the Hotel Talisi
by Linda Peal White
Southern Dining:
Does’ Eat Place
by Bern Keating
Southern Mayors:
No Regular Joe
by Thomas Easterling
Southern Music:
New Sounds: Impala, Alison Krauss, Chris Whitley, The Squirrel Nut Zippers
Southern Video:
Cobb: A Tall Tale
by Steve Vineberg
Southern Books:
Paul Hemphill’s Leaving Birmingham
by Allan Jacobs
Southern Books:
Robert Gordon’s It Came from Memphis
by Stephanie Zacharek
Southern Books:
Samuel Pickering’s Trespassing
by Steven Harvey
Southern Books:
John Egerton’s Speak Now against the Day
by Fred Hobson
FEATURES
Short Stories:
Rose of Lebanon
by William Faulkner
Introduction by Donald Kartiganer
Art Gallery:
Robert Goldstrom
David Ridley
Mike Benny
Kieth Graves
Blair Drawson
Essays:
Daisy
by Andrew Hudgins
Essays:
Billy Ray’s Farm
by Larry Brown
Essays:
I Am Not a Southern Writer
by Guy Davenport
Reporting:
Best Intentions
by Stacy Mattingly