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Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing

4 reviews
John Grisham, Rick Bass, ...

Hill Street Press, 2002

Truly the best of the best
This collection of works--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reportage--by the biggest names writing in or about the South is a real treasure. For those already familiar with "the New Yorker of the South" it will remind those what have made the magazine so special for so many years, and for those who have not discovered the magazine, BOA will be a great introduction to the best in Southern belles ...

Picture Taker: Photographs by Ken Elkins

1 review
Ken Elkins

University Alabama Press, 2005

An exquisite portrait human pride, wit, and stoicism, amid the breathtaking Alabama countryside
Picture Taker is a collection of black-and-white photography by award-winning photojournalist Ken Elkins, celebrating the daily lives of small town and rural inhabitants of Alabama. Aside from a foreword by Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Rick Bragg and an afterword, no text distracts the reader from the poignant images of salt-of-the- earth people. Even the one-sentence captions for the ...

The Poet of Tolstoy Park

25 reviews
Sonny Brewer

Recorded Books, 2006

The Poet of Tolstay Park
The Poet of Tolstay Park Henry Stuart is 67 and suffering from a life-threatening illness. Being a retired professor, a widower, and father of two grown sons, most people in the same circumstances would have hunkered down in the "familiar" to wait for the end. Not Henry Stuart however. He didn't want his sons to go through the heart wrenching experience of seeing their father go from a ...

Willie Morris: An Exhaustive Annotated Bibliography and a Biography

3 reviews
Jack Bales

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006

Beautiful Book
I love everything about it. Practically inhaled the narrative going home on the bus last night. Love the pictures, love the way it is put together. And most of all, just as the author intended, re-love Willie's dear heart. Jack Bales has done a magnificent job on this detailed chronicle of the works of Willie Morris. One of the quotes from a letter to Willie from Bill Clinton, reminded ...

All Over But the Shoutin

296 reviews
Rick Bragg

Random House Value Publishing, 1999

Destined to be a Southern classic ... !
Destined to be a Southern classic, Bragg's "All Over But the Shoutin'" rings true. It is not only a well-written, journalist's memoir, but offers readers who aren't from the South an insightful look at why Southern men often act as they do. On the one hand the book is a rags-to-riches story about a poor white boy from the cotton fields of northeast Alabama who reads, works and writes his way ...

Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg

16 reviews
Rick Bragg

Vintage, 2001

Somebody Told Me
One of the best books you could read. Rick Bragg is tops.

Ava's Man

70 reviews
Rick Bragg

Knopf, 2001

The American South Told in a Heartwrenching Saga
Ava's man was Bragg's maternal grandfather who passed away before Rick was born into poverty. Like William Faulkner, Bragg writes of the poor American South with such vivid descriptions that you feel as though you are walking along a hot, dusty path in a depression era back woods, spiting tobacco and drinking moon shine as your caloused hands and achy back trudge along yet one more soul ...

Redbirds: Memories from the South

4 reviews
Rick Bragg

Harvill Press, 1998

Buyer Beware
I give this book a five star rating-the same rating I would give ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN'-because it is exactly the same book. It is printed on cheaper paper and doesn't have the pictures, but the text is the same. If this information is anywhere in the listing for REDBIRDS, I couldn't find it. I give zero stars to the sales tactics.

The Prince of Frogtown

26 reviews

Random House Audio, 2008

The Prince of Frogtown
Absolutely Rick Bragg's best! I hated for the book to end. Holds attention throughout and very well put together. Could relate to several things in story. Must read!!

Wooden Churches: A Celebration

2 reviews

Algonquin Books, 1999

Nostalgic! Inspirational!
I originally bought this book because Rick Bragg wrote the introduction to it. It goes without saying that his intro alone is worth the price of the book. But I was also elated to rediscover avenues of reading to follow. Accompanying the marvelous photos are excerpts from literary icons. Doris Betts, Richard Wright, Ferroll Sams, Flannery O'Connor; they're all there and more! Could their ...

All Over but the Shoutin' [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)
Rick Bragg, 2006

Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway

5 reviews
Colin Escott, Kira Florita, ...

Da Capo Press, 2001

Thorough Portrait Of A Music Great
In assembling 1998's 10-CD The Complete Hank Williams, Kira Florita and Colin Escott found far more material than their box set's book could contain. As a result, they put together this book, a behind-the-scenes look to hold his devotees spell-bound. Fans who've read Escott's biography Hank Williams will treasure the new material: an extensive collection of informal photos, long-sealed court ...

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

82 reviews
Rick Bragg

Thorndike Press, 2004

Greatest Country Girl Of Our Time
Counter Terrorist I Am a Soldier, Too The Jessica Lynch Story The Jessica Lynch book, I am a Soldier Too, is about her time in Middle East, and her coming home. This woman was caught in route that every soldier has to go on. She was conveying in thirty-three vehicles operation. Lynch, was driving a truck, for the duration of five hours, and she was only going about nine miles. While driving ...

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