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  • About Three Bricks Shy of a Load

    A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl

    by Roy Blount ...
    Now celebrating its fortieth anniversary, Roy Blount Jr.'s classic account of the 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers—a team on the cusp of once-in-a-generation greatnessThe Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s are mentioned in any conversation about the greatest dynasties in NFL history. A year before Pittsburgh's first Super Bowl victory launched a decade of domination, Roy Blount Jr. spent a season traveling ... Read more

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  • Hail, Hail, Euphoria!

    Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made

    by Roy Blount ...
    Nearly eighty years after its release, the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup remains one of the most influential pieces of political satire in history. In Hail, Hail, Euphoria!, bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the history and making of Duck Soup, examining the comedic genius of the Marx Brothers in their finest hour and nine minutes.In Duck Soup, a slim, agile, quick-witted, self-assured young ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dispatches Volume One

    What Men Don't Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

    by Roy Blount ...
    Laugh-out-loud observations from "America's foremost humorist" ( Chicago Tribune).What Men Don't Tell Women: Well, that's just for starters. Roy Blount Jr. realized that nearly all of his writing involved things people don't tell people: what Southerners don't tell Northerners, what the sick don't want to hear from the well, what no one would ever tell their mother, and what authors rarely admit ... Read more

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  • Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

    by Roy Blount ...
    An eclectic collection from Roy Blount Jr., master of American humor writing*I'll tell you what kind of book I believe in: one that makes people say, at first sight, what the first person who ever saw a camel must have said: "*What in the world is that? " And then, after a while, "Yet it seems to fit together some way."In this laugh-a-minute assortment of essays, travel writing, poems, and even ... Read more

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  • First Hubby

    A Novel About a Man Who Happens to Be Married to the President of the United States

    by Roy Blount ...
    A funny novel of the first "First Husband," from an author who "writes in the grand tradition of such American humorists as Mark Twain and Will Rogers" ( Library Journal).Guy Fox first encountered Clementine on the campus of Dingler College. She was running, stark naked, away from an on-campus protest and the police who were pursuing her. Guy and Clementine's romance wound through turbulent social ... Read more

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  • Crackers

    by Roy Blount ...
    An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr.When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and ... Read more

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  • One Fell Soup

    Or, I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life

    by Roy Blount ...
    A collection of short pieces about everything from genius and God to socks and lentils, from one of America's most beloved humor writersOne Fell Soup brings together the reviews, diatribes, investigations, meditations, and poetry of Roy Blount Jr., a writer as insightful as he is funny. Culled from his many columns and magazine writings, this volume offers an unparalleled look at the varied ... Read more

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  • Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

    by Roy Blount ...
    A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America's most cherished humoristsFirst published in 1985, Not Exactly What I Had In Mind is Roy Blount Jr.'s smart and witty examination of the era's most glaring absurdities—from the ever-growing deficit under then-president Reagan to the Game Theory–like levels of strategy required to pack for a vacation. In ... Read more

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  • What Men Don't Tell Women

    by Roy Blount ...
    A hilarious exploration of male-female communication and other momentous topicsMen don't tell women things for various reasons.1. The things in question may not be true.2. It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a pig than to open it and oink.3. There is a certain pleasure in holding certain considerations close to the chest.4. When there is a t... ... Read more

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  • Alphabet Juice

    by Roy Blount ...
    "As if ripped on Old Crow fortified with Adderall, Blount chases letters, words and phrases to their origins, and when stumped he hypothesizes." — The New York TimesDid you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath?Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Feet on the Street

    Rambles Around New Orleans

    “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mark Twain's Library of Humor

    Series series Modern Library Humor and Wit
    Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD