Roy Blount, jr., Author Knopf $25 (383p) ISBN 978-0307266187
Ever since beloved Southern writer Blount moved to Massachusetts, he's been trying to use his “regional ambivalence... to get Aunt Dixie and Uncle Sam on speaking terms.†In this diverse collection of humorous essays and occasional verse, Blount
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Roy Blount, jr., Author Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-374-10369-9
Blount (Long Time Leaving
) is a contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly
, a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
quiz show and a usage consultant to the American Heritage Dictionary
. He displays his pleasure in...
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Roy Blount, jr., Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4645-4
In this brief walking tour of New Orleans, Blount (Robert E. Lee; Be Sweet) spins an atmospheric, pleasantly meandering tale about a city he clearly knows and loves. Rather than offer up the standard guidebook-style list of things for tourists to do,
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Roy Blount, jr., Author Villard Books $18.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-394-57420-2
Blount, well known as a country humorist with a flair for punning, has written a first novel about a country humorist with a flair for punning. Guy Fox, whose wisecrack on hearing Noriega's name is, ``Have yourself a merry little isthmus,'' is, in...
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Roy Blount, jr., Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (289p) ISBN 978-0-679-40054-7
With bylines in 117 publications (e.g., Sports Illustrated, the New Yorker), 14 books (Crackers) and a Hollywood movie (Larger Than Life) to his credit, Blount has become a kind of ultimate freelance writer, maximizing his extraordinary ability to...
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Roy Blount Jr, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-10370-5
The humorist and panelist on public radio's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me pours a tall glass of wordplay, witticism, curmudgeonry, and anecdote in this beguiling follow-up to Alphabet Juice. Leafing through the Oxford English Dictionary and other...
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Roy Blount, jr., Author, Roy Blount, jr., Read by , read by the author. HighBridge Audio $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-095-4
More than anything else, Blount provides an insightful and distinctive critique of Southern cultural disposition. He addresses the elitism of overall American (and in particular, Northern) culture to dispossess the South of legitimate and...
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Roy Blount, jr., Author, Jr. Blount, Author Lipper/Viking $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03220-4
This concise Penguin Life biography can be compared to the Confederate general's Civil War career: valiant, honorable and surprisingly successful with limited resources. Blount, a humorist with 12 books to his credit, avoids hagiography,...
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Roy Blount, jr., Author, Peter Gethers, Editor Villard Books $17.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-394-57419-6
Reprinted from periodicals as diverse as TV Guide , Penthouse and the New York Times, these essays, poems, etc. stamp Blount ( Crackers ) as very much in the mainstream of American humor: his humor is not in the wild and broad tradition of, say,...
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Valerie Shaff, Author, Roy Blount, jr., Author, Valerie Shaff, Photographer HarperCollins $19.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-06-056041-6
Shaff and Blount, who previously charmed pet lovers with I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap and If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You, return with this ode to the cat, which takes the form of cute black-and-white photos accompanied by silly but often clever...
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