Roy Blount
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hard-working humorist Roy Blount Jr. lives in the North but he's from the South, a delicious tension that has always informed and shaped his work. In this new collection, he directs his acerbic wit and finely-tuned insight toward the persistent and colorful differences between the two. His essays treat every conceivable topic on which North and South misunderstand each other, from music to sports, eating, education, politics, child-rearing, religion,...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In "Alphabet Juice," he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of Alphabet Juice presents a wry exploration of the complicated consequences of food choices in today's world, sharing meditative poems, limericks and satirical articles on subjects ranging from bacon froth and kobe beef to the global climate and personal health.,"--NoveList.
8) First Hubby
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Guy Fox finds his romance and marriage to Clementine Fox, vice president of the United States, irrevocably altered when the president drops dead and Clementine becomes America's first female president.
14) Hail, hail, euphoria!: presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck soup, the greatest war movie ever made
Author
Publisher
It Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
16) The main stream
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Humorist Roy Blount, Jr. takes an offbeat journey down the Mississippi River. Navigating this great liquid divide on an assortment of canoes, rafts, steamboats, towboats and fishing vessels, Blount explores what holds this wildly diverse country together. Blount's unpredictable odyssey celebrates the full range of American diversity and eccentricity-- from a wedding ceremony at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, to a rodeo at America's...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
What would cats say if they were of a mind to talk? Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount Jr. have a good idea ...
On the heels of their hugely successful I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap and If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You, Shaff and Blount have paired again, this time for a witty and insightful look at America's other favorite pet -- the cat. Shaff captures the essence of the ever-elusive cat in her gorgeous photographs, and Roy Blount Jr., who the New York...
