Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

Humorist Blount’s latest collection of essays, poems, and songs about all things edible will leave listeners reflecting about their own relationships with food. Blount’s mature, twangy, and raspy voice remains charming throughout and matches well with the tone of the prose, illustrating that Blount is not just a skillful writer but a dab performer as well. This production reveals a range of style and delivery, from the languid and reflective to the musical and jolly. Blount finds just the right pace, emphasis, and mood for each segment. More than on the page, Blount’s spoken wisdom and wit becomes transparent as one hears the wordplay and even the beauty of the prose he has constructed. Readers may enjoy his book, but listeners will revel in his performance. [em]A FSG/Crichton hardcover. (Mar.) [/em]