Dave Bry (December 18, 1970 – October 15, 2017) was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of '' Vibe'', ''

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'', and '' XXL'' and was a columnist for The Awl. 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

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. His father was a psychologist and his mother was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School then Connecticut College, where one of his freshman roommates was

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Career

''Public Apology''

Begun in 2009 as a column for The Awl, ''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." In ''

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'', Patrick Doyle described the book as "a window into growing up in the late Eighties, when John Hughes films and

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ruled the world."

Death

Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017, at the age of 46.

References

External links

* Bry'
columns
at ''

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'' * Bry'
"Public Apology"
columns at The Awl * Bry'
"Death & Parenting"
columns at

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