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My Southern journey : true stories from the heart of the South / Rick Bragg.

by Bragg, Rick.

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Oxmoor House, [2015]

American essays -- 21st century.

Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Essays.

Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Essays.

9780848746391 (hc.)

0848746392 (hc.)

254 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction: South toward home -- Home. The roses of Fairhope ; Mama always said...choose your words carefully ; My brother's garden ; Pretty girl ; Crazy cat lady ; The porch ; Take your medicine, boy ; Time for the year's best nap ; My time machine ; All-night gospel ; Saving face ; Endless summer ; Happy as a pig ; Red dirt -- Table. For a vegetable, I'll have white gravy ; Back to the bayou ; Traveling food ; Fully dressed ; Your first oyster ; Bad slaw ; Never-ending Grace ; The plane truth ; Magic on the plate ; Seasoned in the South ; Summer snow ; The impossible turkey ; Honor thy matriarch ; Requiem for a fish sandwich -- Place. What stands in a storm ; No place like home ; Trade day ; Lost in the dark ; The eternal gulf ; Donkey business ; Armadillo ; Dixie snow ; Merry and bright ; Shopping ; My kind of town ; The lost gulf ; The Yankee mystique ; Cotton ; Stillness -- Craft. Why I write about home ; The fine art of piddling ; The color of words ; The blank notebook ; Fish story ; The quill and the mule ; Words on paper ; Wood, paint, nails, and soul ; Grandpa was a carpenter ; Stuck for good -- Spirit. Down here ; For the love of the game ; All Saint's Day ; When fireworks go South ; O Christmas Tree ; Wheels of time ; The gift of loafering ; Holiday lies ; O Christmas Sock ; Cowboys are her weakness ; A cast of characters ; Nick of time ; 109 yards returned, two points denied, and one twist left in the road ; Long time coming ; Born too late.

"From the author of All Over but the Shoutin' comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. 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. Regional obsessions including college football and fishing, mayonnaise and spoonbread, and the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read. Rick Bragg was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. He is the author of All Over but the Shoutin,' Ava's Man, and The Prince of Frogtown. Bragg has written for numerous magazines, including Sports Illustrated and Food & Wine, was a newspaper reporter for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News, and, among other topics, Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times. Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa"--Provided by publisher.

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