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Son of Nashville, admirer of Garth Brooks, progenitor of Joseph Mitchell, Drew Bratcher has created his own hit debut with a music of casual elegance infused with earthbound wisdom, humor, and love. It's a voice worthy of its roots but bound for its own place among our very best new storytellers. --John D'Agata In the country singer Lefty Frizzell, Drew Bratcher hears 'a genuine music that goes on moving because it is life.' That same music animates these intimate, songful essays. Whether he's writing about a Taylor Swift lyric, the vexed notion of southern authenticity, or the time his grandfather traded a pony for a pair of false teeth, Bratcher offers warmth, clarity, and perfect pitch. --Dan Piepenbring, editor, The Beautiful Ones Reading Drew Bratcher feels to me what it must have been like to be one of William Faulkner's first readers--every sentence packs a fresh punch of the whole history and soul of America's South. He is a vital new voice of his generation, even as his words feel as comfortable and familiar as a plate of grandma's grits. --Garrett M. Graff, author, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History Of 9/11

"""Son of Nashville, admirer of Garth Brooks, progenitor of Joseph Mitchell, Drew Bratcher has created his own hit debut with a music of casual elegance infused with earthbound wisdom, humor, and love. It's a voice worthy of its roots but bound for its own place among our very best new storytellers.""--John D'Agata ""Every essay in this collection sings, makes you think in new ways, and draws the reader into a deeper appreciation of country music, of course, but the storytelling is wonderfully--and this is my highest compliment--human.""--Southern Review of Books ""Drew Bratcher grew up harmonizing country lyrics in his grandpa's shaving mirror and seeing his grandmother wait on Johnny Cash at the bank. In Bub, he beautifully maps memories of a 90s childhood outside Nashville, told through the music that has followed him everywhere since, from Lefty Frizzell to Taylor Swift.""--Rebecca Bengal, contributing editor, Oxford American ""Journalist Bratcher offers well-tuned notes on country music and growing up near Nashville in his sharp debut. . . . Lyricism infuses Bratcher's own prose, and he strikes the right balance between memoir and criticism. This collection sings.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review ""In the country singer Lefty Frizzell, Drew Bratcher hears 'a genuine music that goes on moving because it is life.' That same music animates these intimate, songful essays. Whether he's writing about a Taylor Swift lyric, the vexed notion of southern authenticity, or the time his grandfather traded a pony for a pair of false teeth, Bratcher offers warmth, clarity, and perfect pitch.""--Dan Piepenbring, editor, The Beautiful Ones ""Reading Drew Bratcher feels to me what it must have been like to be one of William Faulkner's first readers--every sentence packs a fresh punch of the whole history and soul of America's South. He is a vital new voice of his generation, even as his words feel as comfortable and familiar as a plate of grandma's grits.""--Garrett M. Graff, author, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History Of 9/11"

Son of Nashville, admirer of Garth Brooks, progenitor of Joseph Mitchell, Drew Bratcher has created his own hit debut with a music of casual elegance infused with earthbound wisdom, humor, and love. It's a voice worthy of its roots but bound for its own place among our very best new storytellers. --John D'Agata Drew Bratcher grew up harmonizing country lyrics in his grandpa's shaving mirror and seeing his grandmother wait on Johnny Cash at the bank. In Bub, he beautifully maps memories of a 90s childhood outside Nashville, told through the music that has followed him everywhere since, from Lefty Frizzell to Taylor Swift. --Rebecca Bengal, contributing editor, Oxford American Journalist Bratcher offers well-tuned notes on country music and growing up near Nashville in his sharp debut. . . . Lyricism infuses Bratcher's own prose, and he strikes the right balance between memoir and criticism. This collection sings. --Publishers Weekly, starred review In the country singer Lefty Frizzell, Drew Bratcher hears 'a genuine music that goes on moving because it is life.' That same music animates these intimate, songful essays. Whether he's writing about a Taylor Swift lyric, the vexed notion of southern authenticity, or the time his grandfather traded a pony for a pair of false teeth, Bratcher offers warmth, clarity, and perfect pitch. --Dan Piepenbring, editor, The Beautiful Ones Reading Drew Bratcher feels to me what it must have been like to be one of William Faulkner's first readers--every sentence packs a fresh punch of the whole history and soul of America's South. He is a vital new voice of his generation, even as his words feel as comfortable and familiar as a plate of grandma's grits. --Garrett M. Graff, author, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History Of 9/11

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Drew Bratcher's essays and journalism have appeared in Oxford American, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paris Review, Nowhere Magazine, Garden & Gun, Image Journal, and Washingtonian. He lives in Chicagoland.

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