Dave Bry (December 18, 1970[1] – October 15, 2017)[2] was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of Vibe, Spin, and XXL and was a columnist for The Awl.[3] He also authored a non-fiction book, Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time (Grand Central, 2013).
Dave Bry | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 18, 1970 Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | October 15, 2017 (aged 46) |
| Education | Red Bank Regional High School |
| Alma mater | Connecticut College |
| Occupation(s) | Editor, author, music journalist |
| Notable work | Public Apology |
| Spouse |
Emily Raimes (m. 2001) |
| Children | 1 |
Early life
editBry was born in 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey and raised in nearby Little Silver. His father was a psychologist and his mother was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.[1] Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School[4] then Connecticut College,[5][6] where one of his freshman roommates was Sean Spicer.[7]
Career
editPublic Apology
editBegun in 2009 as a column for The Awl,[8] Public Apology is an epistolary memoir in which Bry recounted his life via letters of apology for what Nathan Deuel described in Bookforum as "misdeeds great and small"; Deuel praised the book's "slyly understated style," saying "Bry’s restraint lends his prose its own brand of keenness and charisma."[9][10][11]
In Rolling Stone, Patrick Doyle described the book as "a window into growing up in the late Eighties, when John Hughes films and Def Leppard ruled the world."[6]
Death
editBry died of cancer on October 15, 2017 in Brooklyn at the age of 46.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Bry, Dave (September 22, 2010). "Dear Joel". The Awl. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ "Dave Bry, 1970-2017". The Awl. October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ a b Aswad, Jem (October 16, 2017). "Dave Bry, Author and Former Editor at Vibe, XXL and Spin, Dies at 46". Variety. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Bry, Dave. "Eric B. & Rakim's 'Paid In Full' At 25", The Awl, July 6, 2012; accessed October 16, 2017.
"But for us, in the halls of Red Bank Regional High School in New Jersey, it was not up for discussion: Rakim was the best." - ^ "Dave Bry". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ a b Doyle, Patrick (April 12, 2013). "Dave Bry Apologizes to Bon Jovi, Bob Mould in New Memoir". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Bry, Dave (July 20, 2016). "The Trump surrogate who used My Little Pony to defend Melania? My college roommate". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Hill, Angela (April 2, 2013). "Do you apologize too much?". The Mercury News. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Deuel, Nathan (March 13, 2013). "Public Apology by Dave Bry". Bookforum. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Lee, Stephan (March 19, 2013). "Public Apology". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Italie, Leanne (March 18, 2013). "Public Apology writer makes letter format a memoir". Yahoo!. Associated Press. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
External links
edit- Bry's columns at The Guardian
- Bry's "Public Apology" columns at The Awl
- Bry's "Death & Parenting" columns at True/Slant