Roy Blount, Jr.
Author of Alphabet Juice
About the Author
Roy Blount, Jr., has written for the Atlantic Monthly since 1981.
Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Series
Works by Roy Blount, Jr.
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made (2010) 85 copies
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed… (1974) 55 copies
About Three Bricks Shy... And the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever (1974) 37 copies
Elvis: All Shook Up: Stories and Insights from Family Members, Journalists, and Those Who Were There (2012) 7 copies
Dispatches Volume One: What Men Don’t Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard (2018) 3 copies
What Men Don?t Tell Women 1 copy
Spoofing the Graphic 1 copy
Webster's Ark 1 copy
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 447 copies
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contributor — 237 copies
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 115 copies
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 99 copies
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 73 copies
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Contributor — 66 copies
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contributor — 42 copies
Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game (2000) — Foreword — 17 copies
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Renegades: My Wild Trip from Professor to New Journalist with Outrageous Visits from Clint Eastwood, Reggie Jackson,… (2012) — Introduction — 8 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
Sports Illustrated | September 5, 1994 (NFL '94 Preview: In the Line of Fire) (1994) — Contributor — 1 copy
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Blount, Roy, Jr.
- Birthdate
- 1941-10-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Places of residence
- Decatur, Georgia, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (M.A., 1964)
Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1963) - Occupations
- humorist
journalist
actor
musician - Organizations
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
Fellowship of Southern Writers
Authors Guild (president)
National Public Radio (Wait, Wait. . . Don't Tell Me) - Awards and honors
- Thomas Wolfe Award (2009)
Phi Beta Kappa - Short biography
- Roy Blount, Jr. says on his web site: Born to Southern parents in Indianapolis. Grew up in Decatur, Georgia. U.S. Army 1964-66. Reporter and columnist for Atlanta Journal and part-time English instructor at Georgia State College, 1966-68. Free-lance since leaving SI in 1975. Husband of painter Joan Griswold, father of social worker daughter Ennis and director-writer-actor-songwriter son Kirven (with whom he wrote and appeared in a five-minute film on extreme sports for ESPN), grandfather of of Jesse, Noah and Elsie. No pets at present, but previously dogs, cats, horse, rooster, snake, turtle, hamster, monitor lizard, parakeet and hens.
Members
Reviews
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of… by Roy Blount Jr.
Life is too short to slog through all the folksy anecdotes and sports reminiscences and stream-of-consciousness ponderings to get to the nuggets of interesting history and etymology. Maybe someday I'll come back and pick at a word here and there...but I doubt it.
Fun and funny! Lovely photos with delightful annotations! A must for dog lovers! I keep extra copies to give as gifts!
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Statistics
- Works
- 36
- Also by
- 31
- Members
- 2,516
- Popularity
- #10,203
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 56
- ISBNs
- 108
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
- 3
- Touchstones
- 34
