Rick Bragg

Southern Conundrum
Rick Bragg’s Quandary: Can I Mess with My Grandma’s Secret Dressing Recipe?
A reverence for the family special is non-negotiable—but not everyone toes the line

Food & Drink
Rick Bragg’s Whiskey Blues
What does it mean when a Southern writer can’t tell the Pappy from the bad from the ugly?

Arts & Culture
Rick Bragg’s Truck Love
The writer logs the mileage of his life in trucks—rickety hunks of junk, sleek dual cabs, and every kind of pickup in between

Food & Drink
Rick Bragg: Eating My Words
Memories fade, but the moments breaking bread (and slurping oysters) with legendary Southern writers still fill the heart

Travel
Old Florida Found
A lifetime of memories of shell hunting in Panama City Beach and eating stone crabs in Siesta Key keeps onetime local Rick Bragg longing to return

Arts & Culture
The Dog That Stole Rick Bragg’s Heart
She was two dogs high, half a dog wide, and the only animal to ever run away with an Alabama author’s heart

S is for Southern
Harper Lee: Meeting a Legend on a Spring Afternoon
Rick Bragg on the mystery and majesty of one of the South’s most reclusive authors

Sporting South
The Outcast: Tales from the Worst Fisherman in the World
In a family full of fishermen, one hapless angler could hook just about anything except a fish. But that didn’t keep him from a lifetime of trying to land the big one

Celebrate the South
Savor the Bread Pudding Soufflé at Commander’s Palace
A signature New Orleans dish you can count on

Our Kind of Place
The Columns Hotel
Rick Bragg’s New Orleans epiphany

Artists
Jerry Lee and Me
When the call came to write Jerry Lee Lewis’s biography, Rick Bragg knew he couldn’t say no

Food & Drink
Requiem for a Fish Sandwich
For many Southerners, nothing goes quite as well with summer as a fresh grouper sandwich. But these days finding the real thing can be hit or miss

Sporting
Rick Bragg on Boys and Coon Dogs
For a group of young boys in the mountains, nothing beat the howl of a legendary coon dog

City Portrait
Vintage Miami
Cosmopolitan, edgy, never boring, this city has a way of sticking with you

Food & Drink
Your First Oyster
It’s usually not love at first sight, but then you understand what all the fuss is about

Adventures
Home of the Po’boy
In New Orleans, a messy sandwich is a thing of beauty