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Roy Blount Jr.

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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 (2008)

Disclaimer: I did not finish this book. I won't rate it because that wouldn't be fair....Truthfully, I smile when I hear Roy Blount Jr is a guest on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. However, as Roy even says himself, this is not a book to be read cover to cover. It is a book to be picked up and dab...

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 (2008) by Roy Blount Jr.
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Georgia Boy (1995)

Ah...well, this kind of reads like a "G" rated version of some of Caldwell's more popular works, namely God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, and my personal favorite so far, Estherville.A collection of tales featuring the poor Southern Stroup family: Morris Stroup the patriarch - a philandering, unem...

Georgia Boy (1995) by Roy Blount Jr.
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Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (2005)

“One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere, like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time....

Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (2005) by Roy Blount Jr.
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Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South (2007)

The temptation in writing about someone as witty as Roy Blount Jr. is just to rear back and quote. So let’s put temptation before us, with a sample of what’s to be found in his latest book, “Long Time Leaving”: •tOn Truman Capote: “his writing did over time tend to break up in the opposite but c...

Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South (2007) by Roy Blount Jr.
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Not Exactly What I Had in Mind (1985)

Written in a quaint time when the federal deficit was only $200 billion, this collection of short stories is good for a chuckle at some unintentional prophecies (What if Nixon had stuck with this program and expanded it to the point where he was tape recording everybody in the nation except himse...

Not Exactly What I Had in Mind (1985) by Roy Blount Jr.

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