books by Roy Jr Blount

books by Roy Jr Blount

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Roy Jr Blount

Roy, Jr. Blount

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Exhaustive, Invaluable Anthology
Blount, that genius of slippery Southern prose, collects here a truly massive number of classic comedy gems concerning life below the Mason-Dixon line. The pieces range from elegantly witty to down-home scatological. Novelists, monologists, essayists, journalists, ...

I Am the Cat, Don't Forget That: Feline Expressions

Valerie Shaff, Roy Blount Jr.

HarperCollins, 2004

The Wisest Species
Whether a cat lover or one puzzled by the history of cats in stories or one who feels intimidated by their presence, this is a book to cherish and to entertain and to remind us that felines have their own distinctive personalities that can vary from utter devotion and ...

Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story

Roy Blount Jr.

Harvest Books, 1999

Outstanding psychological storytelling!
This is a very intimate book written with a great deal of courage and self-questioning. Roy Blount Jr. lays this book out in a stream-of-consciousness style which makes for compelling reading. He keeps coming back to questioning the unsettling aspects of his ...

Up from Methodism: A Memoir of a Man Gone to the Devil
Herbert Asbury

Basic Books, 2003

In 1926, while a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Herbert Asbury, great-great-nephew of Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Church, submitted a chapter of his profane work-in-progress, an almost spiteful memoir of his boyhood in the Ozark town of Farmington, Missouri, to H.L Mencken's American Mercury magazine. ...

Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (Crown Journeys)

Roy Blount Jr.

Crown, 2005

The New Orleans I Remember and Love
This book, a walking tour of the Big Easy, is another installment in the publishers' Crown Journeys. For me, it was a trip back to a city that I love and that means so much to me. It's all here, from beignets at Cafe du Monde to the street kid who approaches the ...

About Three Bricks Shy: And The Load Filled Up

Roy Blount Jr

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004

the 1976 Steelers, just like the 2004 Steelers
Big Ben: 27-4 as a starter (2004-2005 seasons)---only losses (3 of which were injury-related): Patriots, 2004 AFC Championship game (if Plax holds on to sure TD pass, we are only down 7 with about 7+ minutes to go in that game; Ben did some good things and was battling ...

Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Roy Jr Blount

Knopf, 2007

Yee-haw! (or words to that effect)
Besides being a brilliant specimen of that endangered species, The White Southern Liberal, Blount is about as funny as any humanoid on the planet. "Long Time Leaving," an anthology of some of his occasional pieces, proves a little repetitious at points (how many times ...

Am I Pig Enough for You Yet?: Voices of the Barnyard

Valerie Shaff, Jr. Roy Blount

HarperCollins, 2001

THE BEST TITLE---AND MORE
Not only does this slender volume have the best title of the year, it also can boast wonderful photographs by Valerie Shaff and charming verses to match the photos by Roy Blount, jr. Here are dozens of farmyard animals: chickens, cows, horses, mice, etc. and to ...

Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing

John Grisham, Rick Bass, ...

Hill Street Press, 2002

Truly the best of the best
This collection of works--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reportage--by the biggest names writing in or about the South is a real treasure. For those already familiar with "the New Yorker of the South" it will remind those what have made the magazine so special for so ...

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, ...
Roy Blount Jr.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

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 why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount ...

Gladiators: 40 Years of Football

Total Sports, 2000

Better left in SI
While Walter Iooss has captured the spirt of football, from sandlot to the big show, too many of his panoramic shots have been laid-out across a full two page spread leaving the intended "heroes" centered in the spine of the book. There are also numerous pages that ...

Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!: The Oddly Informative News Quiz

Roy Blount Jr.

Rodale Books, 2002

Very funny book
This is a very funny book based on the radio show. I'm something of a trivia fan, and this book has some of the funniest and most entertaining trivia I've seen. The cover says, "Test your knowledge of narcissistic entertainers, stupid criminals, and windbag ...

Mark Twain's Library of Humor (Modern Library Humor and Wit)

Mark Twain

Modern Library, 2000

Not enough Twain
I knew this was a compilation of stories by a number of authors but there were just a few written by Mark Twain and, given the title, I was expecting more Twain stories.

I Am Puppy Hear Me Yap: The Ages of Dog

Valerie Shaff, Roy Blount Jr.

HarperCollins, 2000

I only wish there were more pages!
Rarely do people capture a puppy's playfulness, spunk, and strong personality with such clean elegance and coherence. There are no prissy, smoochy sayings and no sappy mushy talk (thank goodness), but the spirit of the puppy is captured quite nicely with the gorgeous, ...

Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives)

Roy Blount Jr.

Viking Adult, 2003

No complaints
Obviously, to get a REALLY good idea of who someone was, one must read more than one biography, but Roy Blount, Jr.'s "Robert E. Lee: A Life" is a pretty good start for anyone who has slight trouble wading through the heavy stuff. It keeps a lighthearted air while ...