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 9, October / November 1995
“Man loves to fight, must fight, must do, must conquer a day or lie shiftless, moaning and feckless. Many have felt this…” — Barry Hannah in “Old Terror, New Hearts”
Barry Hannah reports on “Inside Louisiana’s Leper Colony.” Short stories by Debra Leigh Scott and Richard Rubin. Julia Reed explains Southern fashion. Photography by Tom Roster in Canton, Mississippi. Marc Smirnoff writes about That Bookstore in Blytheville. Interview with Joel Schumacher, the director of A Time to Kill. Other contributors include Charles Taylor, Fred Hobson, Thomas Easterling, and Robert Brinkerhoff.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Down, Out, & About:
The Crime Scene
Liberty for Y’all
The Patty Wagon
Southern Humor:
ELVIS WEEK CONFIDENTIAL
by John Fergus Ryan
Southern Travel:
Look Homeward, Thomas
by Thomas Easterling
Southern Outdoors:
A Day No Fish Would Die
by Jonathon Miles
Interview:
Joel Schumacher: Director of a Time to Kill
Southern Music:
In Memoriam: Charlie Rich
by Charles Taylor
Southern Bookstores:
That Bookstore in Blytheville
by Marc Smirnoff
Southern Books:
Lee Smith: This World Is Not My Own
by Charles Taylor
Southern Books:
B.C. Hall & C.T. Wood: Telling About the South
by Fred Hobson
Southern Scenes:
Walker Percy’s the Second Coming
by Robert Brinkerhoff
FEATURES
Short Stories:
The Accidents of Man
by Debra Leigh Scott
Short Stories:
November
by Richard Rubin
Reporting:
Old Terror, New Hearts
Inside Louisiana's Leper Colony
by Barry Hannah
Essay:
Southern Fashion Explained
by Julia Reed
Photography:
On Location in Canton, Mississippi
by Tom Roster