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 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.
FEATURES
SHORT STORY
BLAZE OF DREAMS
by Joy Tremewan
THE WATER MAN
by June Spence
GALLERY
ESSAYS
HYPOCRISY
by Alan Jacobs
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
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
ROSCOE TURNER: AVIATION'S MASTER SHOWMAN
by William Jeanes