Roy blounts book of southern humor there may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a southern writer on a roll. Its also why southerners are generally funnier than their yankee brethren, says southern humorist and writer roy blount jr. That is, put together a big old bible of southern humor, songs and stories and poems and letters and memoirs and essays and other amusing utterances. Roy blounts book of southern humor by blount, roy, jr. Latest is save room for pie, from farrar, straus and giroux. Southern cultures, volume 1, number 4, summer 1995, pp. Blount celebrates his southern roots, but he couldnt have forgotten them if he had.
Pdf roy blount s book of southern humor download full. Roy blounts book of southern humor edited by roy blount jr. Last year, he published an anthology, roy blount s book of southern humor 1994, w. Roy blounts book of southern humor 1994, which contains overs 150 short. Looking will next your people may think of southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of southern literature. My favorite writers which were included are bailey white, ferrol sams, jerry clower, garrison keillor, o. Buy this book with contributions from 114 authorsincluding three pieces by. An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon roy blount jr. When a simpletalking, peanutwarehousing, griteating southern baptist cracker got himself nominated for president of the united states in 1976, it set roy blount jr. The richest vein of american humor the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive can be found below the masondixon line, where the comic impulse just naturally seems allied to the native storytelling genius, and the sacred and the profane are on intimate terms. Blount was born in indianapolis, indiana, and grew up in decatur, georgia. Roy blounts book of southern humor by roy blount jr.
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