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.
Magazine
Issue 46, May / June 2003
“Call New York the literary capital of America at a book party in New York, and watch people roll their eyes at your grasp of the self-evident. Brag up Southern writers in the South—at a literary gathering, a barbecue joint, a gas station, anywhere? Expect gleeful hoots of agreement.” — Mark Winegardner, “Fighting Words”
Essays by Duncan Murrell, Mark Winegardner, John T. Edge, Annie Wedekind, Laura Wilcox, and more. Photography by Naomi Harris. Fiction by Chris Bachelder. Poetry by Benjamin Pryor.
Columns & Departments
Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff
NEWS FROM THE FRONT
Sense of Place
MIAMI, FLORIDA
photographs by Naomi Harris
Local Fare
ON THE SLUG BURGER TRAIL
by John T. Edge
Meditations
FIGHTING WORDS
by Mark Winegardner
Travel
LOST WORLD
by Annie Wedekind
In Louisiana
A RIVER RUNS ALL OVER IT
by Lauren Wilcox
Private History
KIND OF LONESOME ALONE
by Jeff Baker
Video
BLACK LIKE US
by Tom Wiener
FINE PRINT
Redneck politics, the greatest country music singles, a chat with Madison Smart Bell, and more.
MUSIC NOTES
Vic Chesnutt, Lisa Marie Presley, Songs: Ohia, and more.
Dealer’s Choice
DISPATCH FROM A MARTIAL PROVINCE
by Hal Crowther
Southern Scenes
MIAMI, FLORIDA
by Naomi Harris
Poetry
FORTUNATE TRAIN
by Benjamin Pryor
Features
THE ART OF POLITICS
Wesley Clark will run for president when he’s good and ready.
by Duncan Murrell
GEORGIA AND AFTER
Breaking up on the road with just one state left to go.
a story by Chris Bachelder
Cover: Photograph of Wesley Clark by Matthew Martin