Celebrate 30 years of the OA.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
“It is [the poet’s] privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.” — William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Features include “The Homesick Letters of William Faulkner,” by Padgett Powell and Donald Kartiganer. Fiction by Mark Richard. Other contributors include Steve Yarbrough, Diane Roberts, Bern Keating, Vladimir Nabokov, William C. Ordiorne, and others.
The Homesick Letters of William Faulkner
ON COMING LATE TO FAULKNER
by Padgett Powell
THE LONG SHADOW
by Donald Kartiganer
MEMORIAL DAY
by Mark Richard
GRANDMA'S TABLE
by Steve Yarbrough
WHEN YOU CAN'T QUIT YOUR BABY
by Diane Roberts
HISTORY
by Bern Keating
BOOKS
by Fred Hobson
VIDEO
by Randall Curb
CRITICISM
by Vladimir Nabokov
COMICS
by P. Revess
SOUTHERN SCENES
by William C. Ordiorne
DEALER’S CHOICE
by Hal Crowther
WAVING NOT DROWNING
by Julia Reed
GONE OFF UP NORTH
by Roy Blount Jr.