Rick Bragg

What does it mean when a Southern writer can’t tell the Pappy from the bad from the ugly?

Memories fade, but the moments breaking bread (and slurping oysters) with legendary Southern writers still fill the heart

Over a phone call from the road, the Southern author talks his new essay collection, books that inspire him, the unhealthiest scrambled eggs in history, and his spooky Halloween plans

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

She was two dogs high, half a dog wide, and the only animal to ever run away with an Alabama author’s heart

Rick Bragg on the mystery and majesty of one of the South’s most reclusive authors

Season 3 kicks off with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author on his new book and love of Southern food

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

A signature New Orleans dish you can count on

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

For a group of young boys in the mountains, nothing beat the howl of a legendary coon dog

Cosmopolitan, edgy, never boring, this city has a way of sticking with you

It’s usually not love at first sight, but then you understand what all the fuss is about

In New Orleans, a messy sandwich is a thing of beauty