My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South [Hardcover]

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From the celebrated bestselling author ofAll Over but the Shoutin'and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south.

Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook.

Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition,My Southern Journeyis an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.
Rick Braggis the Pulitzer Prize winning author ofAll Over but the Shoutin,'Ava's Man, andThe Prince of Frogtown.Bragg, who has written for numerous magazines, includingSports IllustratedandFood & Wine, was a newspaper reporter for two decades, covering high school football for theJacksonville News, and, among other topics, Islamic fundamentalism forThe New York Times. He has won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award. A graduate of Jacksonville State University, Bragg was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and livl3¦