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This issue features new fiction by George Singleton and Lisa Howorth. In the latest installment of “Cooking with Chris,” Chris Offutt divulges the pimento cheese recipe that fueled multigenerational feuding in his family. Local Fare columnist John T. Edge—whose work for the OA was recently selected for the forthcoming anthology Best Food Writing 2014—explores the cultural linkages between India and the American South. In addition to excellent writing, the OA’s Summer issue includes more than twenty drawings and photographs, including Instagram shots and Polaroids.
Black Patti 8030, by Amanda Petrusich
Son Thomas Makes a Ladyhead, by Cree McCree
Last of the Red Hot Poppas, by Eric Benson
Last Will, a story by Lisa Howorth
The Ludowici Trap, by Tom Zoellner
A Guide to Surviving your Father's Homelessness, by Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams
Consider the Squirrel, by Jamie Allen
American Folk, photographs by Lisa Elmaleh
The Ghosts of Memphis, by Carol Spindel
Local Fare: Deep South Vadouvan, by John T. Edge
Daughters of the Springs
by Lauren Groff
Scout's Honor
by Rosecrans Baldwin
O Beulah Land
by Catherine Venable Moore
Jack My Heart
by William Giraldi
Traditional Development
A story by George Singleton
Tornado, by Ansel Elkins
Because There’s Still a Sky, Junebug, by Tarfia Faizullah
Stand, by Jericho Brown
Along the Mississippi, by Monica A. Hand
Private Household Occupations
by Ellen Ann Fentress
Musings for Chameleons
Hilton Als’s white girls
by Natalie Elliott
Cooking with Chris:
Bourbon and Cheese
by Chris Offutt
Art by: Julie Blackmon, Bob Bayne, Jared Soares, Ken Brown, Rex Miller, Michael Sherwin, Thomas Prior, Anna Dykema, Tim Davis, Michelle Norris, Lisa Elmaleh, Brian Anderson, Meryl Truett, Michael Muller, Chris Jackson, Roger May, Scott Hubener, Eleanor Davis, Kendall Messick, Ralph Smith
Cover: “Stock Tank” by Julie Blackmon
