Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night

Grizzard, syndicated columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , and author of Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes, here presents a collection of his columns from recent years. Ranging from Moscow to Bermuda, he examines figures on the American landscape such as George Bush and Tammy Faye Bakker, focusing on the Southland. His topics include religion, dining out, journalism, golf, dogs, people named Bubba, teenagers, the sad state of sports in his adopted city. He pokes gentle fun at the arbiters of men's fashion, at those who put ads in the personal columns, women golfers, the language of today's young people, the perils of skiing, the fate of dieters' lost pounds and the disappearance of the front porch. The book is innocuous and amiable and calculated not to offend anyone. (Oct.)