Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaver...
In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of ful...
Getting back to basic truths that we have lost sight of through no fault of my own. A humorous co...
“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay mar...
“Betcha I can tell ya Where ya Got them shoooes. Betchadollar, Betchadollar, Wher...
Who lived at the P.O. in China Grove, Mississippi?What does NASCAR stand for?Where is the Red...
This is the thirtieth-anniversary edition of a book long considered a classic and one of Sport...
'My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said,' writes Roy Blount Jr., 'and I'm still trying t...
The richest vein of American humor-the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive-c...
Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with TwistsNo man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like...
'If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, b...
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, 'We lived. We ate.'Roy Blount Jr. is one ...