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 8, August / September 1995
For this issue, “the question before us was how to follow up a grandiloquent William Faulkner story.” — Editor’s Letter
Fiction by Joy Tremewan and June Spence. Photo gallery by William Joyce. Essays by Alan Jacobs and Lawrence Wells. History by Allen Barra on “The Life and Legend of Doc Holliday.” Other contributors include Linda Peal, Jonathan Miles, Michael Sragow, Hal Crowther, William Jeanes, and Tom Sulley.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Down, Out & About:
Radio Men
A Necessary Place
Guntown Stranger
Southern Travel:
Stranger Longings in Monroeville
by Linda Peal
Southern Food:
Dispatch from the Tick Farmer’s Kitchen
by Jonathan Miles
Southern Video:
Blue-Eyed Soul
by Michael Sragow
Southern Books:
Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road
by Hal Crowther
Southern Books:
Roscoe Turner: Aviation’s Master Showman
by William Jeanes
Southern Scenes
by Tom Sully
FEATURES
Short Story:
Blaze of Dreams
by Joy Tremewan
The Water Man
by June Spence
Gallery:
A Day With William Joyce
Essays:
Hypocrisy
by Alan Jacobs
Essays:
Second-Guessing the Past
by Lawrence Wells
Personalities:
One Night with the Killer
by John Fergus Ryan
History:
The Life and Legend of Doc Holliday
by Allen Barra