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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips
If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic . . . that we'd hardly …
About Three Bricks Shy
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up …
Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
"My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said," writes Roy Blount Jr., "and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces." In the book his readers have been waiting for, our …
Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text
No man of letters savers 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 …
Long Time Leaving
“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 …
Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
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 …
About Three Bricks Shy
Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAny number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up …
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
Seventy-seven years ago a slim, agile, quick-witted, self-assured young man, identifying with but transcending his ethnic minority, was summoned to save a nation from financial …
Hail, Hail, Euphoria! - Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
Seventy-seven years ago a slim, agile, quick-witted, self-assured young man, identifying with but transcending his ethnic minority, was summoned to save a nation from financial …
Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor
A treasury of contemporary Southern humor includes more than 150 stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and song lyrics from such contributors as William Faulkner, Mark Twain, …
A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
An unpublished Mark Twain story surfaces 125 years after it was first written. Set in the quaint hollow of Deer Lick, a mythical town resembling Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, …