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Dave Bry

Dave Bry has written and edited stories about music for the magazines Vibe, ego trip and XXL. For the past three years, he has written about a wide variety of subject matter for the website The Awl.  Dave lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son. He is the author of Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples With a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time.

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Fact and Nonfiction

Speak, Faulty Memory

<p>Dave Bry vowed to write nonfiction with the whole truth and nothing but the truth, cautioned by the failures of authors he admires such as David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace. But then something in the manuscript of his memoir, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Public-Apology-Grapples-Lifetime-Incident/dp/1455509167" target="_blank">Public Apology</a></i>, didn’t quite hold up.</p>

Dave Bry

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