Where I Come From by Rick Bragg

November 14, 2020

If you read Southern Living, you’ve probably read most of the essays in Rick Bragg’s book Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South. I’m not from the South. I’m not from the mill towns and hills and country that Bragg describes with so...

What Are You Reading?

November 12, 2020

How are you? Did you survive last week? I hope you’re doing okay. I’m always willing to listen.Here’s the other question. What are you reading? I’m reading Rick Bragg’s new collection, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South....

What Are You Reading?

February 28, 2018

What better way to end the month than to talk about what we’re reading? I’m actually reading a book that comes out in April, Rick Bragg’s The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table. It’s a combination memoir and...

My Southern Journey by Rick Bragg

September 20, 2015

In a number of essays in this collection, Rick Bragg refers to magic, usually in relation to food,  particularly in New Orleans. But, I use that term in relation to his writing. His latest collection is poetry, pure magic. My Southern Journey: True Stories...