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Rick Bragg, who worked at the LAT for about a month before jumping to the New York Times, has been suspended by the NYT in the Jayson Blair aftermath. There have always been whispers about Bragg's reporting style, as Seth Mnookin of Newsweek surfaces. Bragg's brief local career was noteworthy only for the way it ended. Hired with assurances he would be a star writer for the LAT Sunday magazine, he seethed when given lowly Metro assignments by a desk editor determined to pop Bragg's swelled ego. Instead, Bragg popped into the Metro editor's office, wrote out a check reimbursing the Times for his moving expenses, and left for New York. He won the 1996 Pulitzer in feature writing by edging out the LAT's Richard E. Meyer. Slate's Jack Shafer also examines the Bragg record: "Bragg has been an editor-protected scandalette-waiting-to-happen for years."
Blair talks to the NY Observer
I am also looking for the e-mail address of Rick Bragg. He is from the same part of the country as I am, and I loved reading his stories about the south. I was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and my parents lived in Anniston for 5 years after my father retired form the military. Does anyone know the address?? I need to write him and show my support.
Posted by: Debora at September 1, 2003 03:08 PMI need to get in touch with Rick Bragg...if you have his email address would you please share it with me? I have an interesting subject that I would love to share with Rick about a South Florida Matchmaker that has 54 felony counts
charged against her in the State of Florida...
and 54 charges of Grand Theft...She charges her wealthy clients from $100,000 down to $4,000 to make the match of their hearts. Her clients include Billinaires down to widow with broken hearts. Only one marriage is on record from her matches yet she claims 11,000. She has been excluded from doing business in New York, New Jersey, California, and Israel. She has alluded the law for over 33 years. Will she ever be convicted? Perhaps Rick could write her a conviction? Extremely professional actress and con artist.
can anyone forward rick bragg's email address? thank you!
Posted by: randi at September 9, 2003 07:01 AMCan you please forward Mr. Bragg's email address? Thanx, M. F.
Posted by: Mary Freedman at September 29, 2003 08:39 AMI have read "Shoutin'" and just now finished "Ava's Man". I am from north Alabama,
and remember people who fit the personalities of the people described in his book.
I grew up on a farm, poor but proud. My grandmother made all my clothes. What I would have given to have had a "store-bought dress"!
If it hadn't been for a year round garden that was preserved, there would have been little food on our table.
I remember the "trot lines" on the river and the mink traps that my Daddy set. My gr-grandfather went to jail for awhile for a whiskey still on his property during the Depression, taking the rap for one of his sons.
I remember weeding the garden in 100 degree July weather with the dust flowing and cutting my leg with the hoe handle. As I watched the blood ooze down my leg, mixing with the garden dust, I made up my mind that I was getting out of that place.
I had some brains and good grades, so I went to college, the first in my family. I only truly realized how poor our family was when I got to college, and other students were talking about their maids, parties, etc., and I visited in their big Southern homes. But I learned too that some of these people were just poor and proud too, but pretending. Some were living in family homes that they had inherited from generations back, and the family ate pork and beans for lunch on their ancestor's fine dinnerware. They had a "good" Southern name and family history, but the money had long ago disappeared.
Would like Rick Bragg's e-mail address also, but if not, hope this message is passed on to him. He made his family and their friends (and enemies) into real people that I could identify with.
I, also, would like to receive Rick Bragg's email address.
Posted by: Barry Blackburn at October 9, 2003 08:05 AMTHIS IS A LONG SHOT!!!!!!!!BUT CAN I GET RICK BRAGG'S EMAIL ADDRESS??? I HAVE NEVER READ ANY OF HIS BOOKS...BUT RECENTLY ATTENDED ONE OF HIS "TALKS" OUTSIDE OF NEW ORLEANS. I DON'T INTEND TO READ ANY OF THE BOOKS..BUT WANTED TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING STATEMENTS THAT HE MADE DURING THE TALK AND SOME OTHER THINGS I NOTICED ABOUT HIM. JUST CURIOUS.
Posted by: LYDIA at October 11, 2003 12:08 PMDid anyone get this address? If so, can you forward it to me? Thanks,
Posted by: Debbie at October 12, 2003 04:49 AMI am seeking Rick Bragg's email address. A story of injustice has come to my attention and I believe he is the journalist to shed light on it and perhaps help
Posted by: Paula at November 5, 2003 07:12 AMI am seeking Rick Bragg's email address. A story of injustice has come to my attention and I believe he is the journalist to shed light on it and perhaps help
Posted by: Paula at November 5, 2003 07:12 AMI need Rick Bragg's email also. Send to nihbay@yahoo.com
Posted by: Ken McHenry, M.D. at November 6, 2003 09:16 AME-mail address please.Ye Olde College Inn requests Rick's presence.Thanks.
Posted by: John Blancher at November 11, 2003 02:41 PMSeems Everyone wants Rick Bragg's e-mail address. Me too. Want to send a mushy fan letter. His books are addictive. Please help,anybody!
Posted by: Nancy Sprowls at November 16, 2003 01:02 AMGREETINGS FROM ATLANTA,
MY NAME IS JULES AND I NEED TO CONTACT/E-MAIL MR RICK BRAGG. "I'M A SOLDIER TOO" TRIGGERED A MILTARY EXPERIANCE OF MINE THAT I FEEL HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN. I HAVEN'T PURCHASED THE BOOK YET BUT I PLAN TO. MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS tejules52@aol.com.THANK YOU
JULES-MICHEL
Posted by: JULES M. WILSON at November 18, 2003 10:43 AMRick Bragg, will you help me write my story? After reading the Jessica Lynch story, I know you are the author for me. Please e-mail.
Thank you,
SAMc
I have nothing more to offer than this-my own personal story. One way or another I will find an author whom has the courage to write what I have experienced with the military. What I have to share has the potenial to help thousands of other soldiers. Are you interested, MR Bragg? After reading some of your works I believe you to be one who might.
SGT Cherie L. Davis
My contact info-cldk72@comcast.net
SGT D
Could I please have you email address, Mr. Bragg. I'd really appreciate getting in touch with you. I wanted to ask you a question. Thank you!
Posted by: Stephanie Gunnon at December 26, 2003 04:11 AMGREETINGS FROM VIRGINIA,
MY NAME IS SAMMY AND I NEED TO CONTACT/E-MAIL MR RICK BRAGG.
I WANT TO READ MY STORY AND SEE WHETHER IT IS WORTH IT. I AM A REFUGEE FROM RWANDA. MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS sammyk@post.com THANK YOU
I would love to share a story of my mother's life.She is now 84 and has written the story her-self.It is very similar to "All Over" . I met Mr.
Bragg in Memphis @ a lecture he was giving pertaining to freedom of speech.He'll remember me
and mother by her screeching hearing aid that Mr.
Bragg made me bring to the stage because we could not get it to stop screeching!!.It was new and she did not know how to turn it off.He put it under his sport coat so the talk could continue.
Any correspondence from Mr Bragg would please her
this late in her life. Somehow,we must get this
elusive man's e-mail address.
I am looking for Rick Bragg's email address or any
way I can contact him.
Thanks,
Brad Abercrombie
dpbearcub@aol.com
I am looking to contact Rick Bragg. His business address or his e-mail. "Shoutin" and "Ava's Man" in the top 5 of best books I have ever read.
Posted by: Fran at January 15, 2004 10:56 AMI just finished reading "Ava's Man" and "Shoutin". I wanted to thank Mr. Bragg for sharing his wonderful grandfather and mother with me. I feel the world is a better place knowing that people like them walked the earth. They are the true fabric of the twentieth century. Thank you again.
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Posted by: alex at March 5, 2004 01:40 PM
Monica Almeida has the perspective of a native Angeleno who photographs Los Angeles for an East Coast newspaper: the New York Times.
of LA Observed
I'M LOOKING FOR AN EMAIL ADDRESS FOR RICK BRAGG. DOES ANYONE HAVE IT?
Posted by: Catie Parker at July 19, 2003 10:15 AMTHANK YOU,
CATIE