 Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas | Roy Blount Jr.Includes the names: Roy Blount, Rot Blount, Roy Blount Jr., Roy Blount Jr., Roy Jr. Blount, Roy Blount Jr., Roy Blount Jr., Ray Jr. Blount, Jr. JR. Roy Blount, Roy Jr collect Blount ... (see complete list), Jr. Introduction By Roy Blount - Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and… 272 copies, 15 reviews
- Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives) 104 copies, 2 reviews
- Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South 102 copies
- Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story 71 copies, 3 reviews
- Now, Where Were We? 55 copies
- Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (Crown Journeys) 55 copies, 1 review
- Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor 52 copies
- Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!: The Oddly Informative News Quiz (Foreword) 46 copies, 2 reviews
- About Three Bricks Shy Of A Load 39 copies, 1 review
- One Fell Soup: Or I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life 38 copies
- First Hubby 36 copies
- Not Exactly What I Had in Mind 32 copies
- Crackers 29 copies
- Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard 29 copies
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Roy Blount Jr. has 8 past events. (show) We are so excited to be able to welcome one of America's foremost humorists to Concord! Roy Blount, Jr., prolific author, frequent guest on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! and A Prairie Home Companion, and (on a serious note) past president of the Author's Guild, will be our guest in the Writers in ... (more)Event location: Capitol Center for the Arts
Roy Blount, Jr. will be on hand to sign copies of his book, Alphabet Juice (now in paperback), and chat with customers. In Alphabet Juice, Blount celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations in this amusing, often hilarious romp through the English ... (more)Event location: Doubletree Hotel, 808 20th Street South
Roy Blount on tour for Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory.
Join us for our annual fundraiser featuring author Roy Blount Jr. and the presentation of the Julian Sinclair Smith Award to Linda Stern Kass. Afterwords, have dinner in the stacks provided by some of the city's finest restaurants! Tickets $100. Call 614-849-1051 for information.
“Through is Thoroughly Throughsome, Go is Wide Open, and Wince Makes You Wince: On the Non-Arbitrariness of Words.” Presented as the 2008-2009 Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture, sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. The lecture will take place in Flynn Auditorium of the Law School, ... (more)Roy Blount discusses Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory. Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
The Bookloft: Celebrate the juju of language with Roy Blount, Jr.! (October 17, 2008 at) Roy Blount Jr. , Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory. Have you ever noticed how the word "wince" makes you wince? Did you know that both "mammal" and "matter" are derived from baby talk? Are you aware that the word "laugh" is linguistically related to chickens and pie? If you love words and enjoy learning their life stories, ... (more)
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