ISBN-13: 978-0-8487-4639-1
ISBN-10: 0-8487-4639-2
Library of Congress Control Number:
2015936802
Printed in the United States of America
First Printing 2015
Senior Editors: Katherine Cobbs,
Erica Sanders-Foege
Assistant Project Editors: Lacie Pinyan,
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Designer: Maribeth Jones
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Assistant Production Manager:
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Essay Credits:
• GQ, May 2002, “
For a Vegetable, I’ll Have White Gravy
”
•
Bon Appetit,
November 2004, “
Back to the Bayou
”
•
Louisiana Kitchen
, June 2012, “
Magic on the Plate
”
•
Garden & Gun,
August/September, 2014, “
Requiem for a Fish Sandwich
”—© 2014 Rick Bragg, as first published in
Garden & Gun
•
Smithsonian,
June 2009, “
My Kind of Town, Fairhope, Alabama
”—From SMITHSONIAN Magazine, June 2009
•
Garden & Gun,
August/September, 2010, “
The Lost Gulf
”—© 2010 Rick Bragg, as first published in
Garden & Gun
•
Long Leaf Style,
Summer 2008, “
Why I Write About Home
”
•
GQ,
June 2002, “
Wood, Paint, Nails, and Soul
”
•
ESPN
The Magazine, August 2012, “
Down Here
”—© 2012,
ESPN The Magazine
. Reprinted courtesy of ESPN
•
Best Life,
September, 2005, “
A Cast of Characters
”
•
Sports Illustrated,
“
Nick of Time,
” August 2007—©
Sports Illustrated,
August 2007
•
ESPN
The Magazine, Jan 2014, “
Last Weekend
”—© 2014,
ESPN The Magazine.
Reprinted courtesy of ESPN
* Disclaimer: Some essays have been edited slightly by the author since their original publication.