Dave Bry

Dave Bry
Born(1970-12-18)December 18, 1970
Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedOctober 15, 2017(2017-10-15) (aged 46)
EducationRed Bank Regional High School
Alma materConnecticut College
Occupation(s)Editor, author, music journalist
Notable workPublic Apology
Spouse
Emily Raimes
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(m. 2001)​
Children1

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).

Early life

Bry 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

Public Apology

Begun 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

Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017 in Brooklyn at the age of 46.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bry, Dave (September 22, 2010). "Dear Joel". The Awl. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  2. ^ "Dave Bry, 1970-2017". The Awl. October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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."
  5. ^ "Dave Bry". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  6. ^ a b Doyle, Patrick (April 12, 2013). "Dave Bry Apologizes to Bon Jovi, Bob Mould in New Memoir". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Hill, Angela (April 2, 2013). "Do you apologize too much?". The Mercury News. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  9. ^ Deuel, Nathan (March 13, 2013). "Public Apology by Dave Bry". Bookforum. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  10. ^ Lee, Stephan (March 19, 2013). "Public Apology". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  11. ^ Italie, Leanne (March 18, 2013). "Public Apology writer makes letter format a memoir". Yahoo!. Associated Press. Retrieved October 16, 2017.