Dave Bry's guest appearances

Dave Bry

Life Stories

Oh No! Not...

Marty Sklar

Dani Shapiro

Ursula K. Le Guin

James Rhodes

Gary Marcus

Steven Rinella

James Rebanks

Barry Crimmins

Kat Kinsman

Annabelle Gurwitch

Jesmyn Ward

John Kaag

Ophira Eisenberg

Jonathan Wilson

Sarah Manguso

OwlTail

Daphne Caruana Galizia

Grady Tate

On this week's episode we discuss a couple who perished in the Northern California fires, a beloved columnist, the drummer from Twin Peaks and an assassinated journalist from Malta.

Episode 33 - Oh No! Not Sara and Charles Rippey, Dave Bry, Grady Tate and Daphne Caruana Galizia!

 photo: Dani Schuller In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast series where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, I met up with Dave Bry, who, as his subtitle suggests, “grapples with a lifetime of regret, one incident at a time,” in Public Apology—which is, he explains, more than a collection of his columns of the same name at The Awl. Contractually, it had to be 60% all-new material, and that requirement helped him make the transition from a collection of anecdotes where Bry presents himself as the butt of a joke to a life story of substance and consequence. (Bry cheerfully cops to the “gimmick”-y nature of some of the columns—the notion that the apology is simply the device that enables him to write about a given subject—but here’s the thing: It’s okay to use the tools that are at hand! You’ll also hear about how Bry’s editor, Choire Sicha, recognized the potential book lurking in the column long before Bry himself did…) Listen to Life Stories #31: Dave Bry (MP3 file); or download the file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click).

<a href="http://www.beatrice.com/life-stories/LifeStoriesDaveBry.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> photo: Dani Schuller In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast series where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, I met up with Dave Bry, who, as his subtitle suggests, “grapples with a lifetime of regret, one incident at a time,” in <a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/29017/biblio/9781455509164" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Public Apology</a>—which is, he explains, more than a collection of his columns of the same name at <a href="http://www.theawl.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Awl</a>. Contractually, it had to be 60% all-new material, and that requirement helped him make the transition from a collection of anecdotes where Bry presents himself as the butt of a joke to a life story of substance and consequence. (Bry cheerfully cops to the “gimmick”-y nature of some of the columns—the notion that the apology is simply the device that enables him to write about a given subject—but here’s the thing: It’s okay to use the tools that are at hand! You’ll also hear about how Bry’s editor, Choire Sicha, recognized the potential book lurking in the column long before Bry himself did…) Listen to <a href="http://www.beatrice.com/life-stories/LifeStoriesDaveBry.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Life Stories #31: Dave Bry</a> (MP3 file); or download the file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click).

Life Stories #31: Dave Bry