Roy Blount, Jr.
Teoksen Alphabet Juice tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Roy Blount, Jr., has written for the Atlantic Monthly since 1981.
Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Sarjat
Tekijän teokset
If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs (1998) — Tekijä — 240 kappaletta, 6 arvostelua
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made (2010) 89 kappaletta, 4 arvostelua
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed… (1974) 54 kappaletta
About Three Bricks Shy... And the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever (1974) 37 kappaletta
Elvis: All Shook Up: Stories and Insights from Family Members, Journalists, and Those Who Were There (2012) 7 kappaletta
Dispatches Volume One: What Men Don’t Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard (2018) 3 kappaletta
Spoofing the Graphic 1 kappale
What Men Don?t Tell Women 1 kappale
Webster's Ark 1 kappale
Alphabet Juice 1 kappale
Associated Works
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Avustaja — 716 kappaletta, 6 arvostelua
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Avustaja — 458 kappaletta, 3 arvostelua
A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage (2001) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 432 kappaletta, 10 arvostelua
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Avustaja — 251 kappaletta, 3 arvostelua
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Avustaja — 144 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Avustaja — 119 kappaletta, 3 arvostelua
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Avustaja — 101 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! The Oddly Informative News Quiz (2002) — Esipuhe — 74 kappaletta, 2 arvostelua
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Avustaja — 73 kappaletta
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Avustaja — 68 kappaletta, 3 arvostelua
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Avustaja — 43 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Avustaja — 35 kappaletta, 2 arvostelua
Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game (2000) — Esipuhe — 17 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Renegades: My Wild Trip from Professor to New Journalist with Outrageous Visits from Clint Eastwood, Reggie Jackson,… (2012) — Johdanto — 8 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Sports Illustrated | September 5, 1994 (NFL '94 Preview: In the Line of Fire) (1994) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Blount, Roy, Jr.
- Syntymäaika
- 1941-10-04
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Decatur, Georgia, USA
- Koulutus
- Harvard University (M.A., 1964)
Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1963) - Ammatit
- humorist
journalist
actor
musician - Organisaatiot
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
Fellowship of Southern Writers
Authors Guild (president)
National Public Radio (Wait, Wait. . . Don't Tell Me) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Thomas Wolfe Award (2009)
Phi Beta Kappa - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- 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.
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers… Tekijä: Roy Blount Jr.
Blount really loves the Marx Brothers' film Duck Soup. I think he loves it too much to write true film criticism of it. He's adopting the tone, he's trying to make jokes...and he isn't really succeeding. I didn't learn anything new about the film, its place in the zeitgeist, its value, its skeptics. I only learned that Blount really, really, really loves Duck Soup.
Fun book on word origins and trivia. A little blue humor.
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!
Listat
Palkinnot
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 36
- Also by
- 33
- Jäseniä
- 2,521
- Suosituimmuussija
- #10,181
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.5
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 57
- ISBN:t
- 107
- Kielet
- 2
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 3
