Roy Blount, Jr. Audio & Video

Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general, a complex soul, and a Southerner to the core....

Most kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, or Norman...

Guests examined the history of post-Civil War Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and race relations through the writings of Mark Twain.

Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up with an interesting book.

Roy Blount knows New Orleans like the inside of an oyster shell and is only too glad to take us to both the famous and the infamous sights.

In this savory and exuberant travelogue, New Orleans is experienced through the eyes, ears, and taste buds of Roy Blount, Jr....

The first collection of the beloved humorist's sly, dry, hilarious essays in more than a decade focuses on a perennially popular topic: the South vs. the North.

After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, Roy Blount Jr. still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations.

As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easily with food - he didn't have to think, he just ate.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind, says...