A 'witty, lively and wholly fascinating' (The New York Times) portrait of an iconic Southern hero

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, 'We lived. We ate.'Roy Blount Jr. is one ...

'My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said,' writes Roy Blount Jr., 'and I'm still trying t...

'If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, b...

Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with TwistsNo man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like...

Nearly eighty years after its release, the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup remains one of the most i...

This is the thirtieth-anniversary edition of a book long considered a classic and one of 'Sports ...

To get at the heart of being Southern, one should turn to 'Crackers'. Roy Blount, Jr., puts reade...

In this acerbic, eminently quotable book, humorist Roy Blount Jr. focuses on his own dueling loya...

The richest vein of American humor-the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive-c...