Roy Blount Jr : 16 books
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
An eclectic collection from Roy Blount Jr., master of American humor writing
I’ll tell you what kind of book I believe in: one that makes people say, at first sight, what the first person who ever saw a camel must have said: “What in the world is that?” And then, after a while, “Yet...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr.
When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about...
Alphabet Juice
The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Ali G: How many words does you know?
Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.
Ali G: What is some of 'em?
—Da Ali G Show
Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder...
Save Room for Pie
Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.
And we will say, “We lived. We ate.”
Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America’s most cherished humorists
First published in 1985, Not Exactly What I Had In Mind is Roy Blount Jr.’s smart and witty examination of the era’s most glaring absurdities—from the ever-growing...
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load
A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Now celebrating its fortieth anniversary, Roy Blount Jr.’s classic account of the 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers—a team on the cusp of once-in-a-generation greatness
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s are mentioned in any conversation about the greatest dynasties in NFL history. A year before...
Feet on the Street
Rambles Around New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw...
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the story of theclassic Marx Brothers wartime satire Duck Soup. As always, Blount isinformed yet informal, tongue-in-cheek yet tempered, providing the perfectvoice to recount the irreverent antics of Harpo, Chico, Groucho, and Zeppo. Readers of HarpoSpeaks,...
Be Sweet
A Conditional Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story.
Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick...
Alphabetter Juice
or, The Joy of Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists
No man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists,...
Long Time Leaving
Dispatches from Up South
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A hilarious exploration of male-female communication and other momentous topics
Men don’t tell women things for various reasons.
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*1. *The things in question may not be true.
*2. *It is better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a pig than...
Dispatches Volume One
What Men Don’t Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Laugh-out-loud observations from “America’s foremost humorist” (Chicago Tribune).
What Men Don’t Tell Women: Well, that’s just for starters. Roy Blount Jr. realized that nearly all of his writing involved things people don’t tell people: what Southerners don’t tell Northerners, what...
One Fell Soup
Or, I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
A collection of short pieces about everything from genius and God to socks and lentils, from one of America’s most beloved humor writers
*One Fell Soup *brings together the reviews, diatribes, investigations, meditations, and poetry of Roy Blount Jr., a writer as insightful as he is funny....
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