[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).
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] 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.