Roy Blount

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Delaware

Or, the Joy of Text

Alphabetter Juice

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#hardcover #nonfiction #humor #writing #language #English #linguistics

Iowa

#hardcover #language #alphabetjuice  #english #letters #words #phonemes #linguistics 

Indiana

The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof - Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences - With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

From sources as venerable as the OED and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com, and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, this book derives an organic take on language that is unlike any other.

Alphabet Juice

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review) to “a book to read till it falls apart” (Newsweek). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easy with food—he didn’t have to think, he just ate. But food doesn’t exist in a vacuum; there’s the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount’s chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while he’s always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount’s signature style. Here you’ll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. You’ll also find defenses of gizzards, mullet, okra, cane syrup, watermelon, and boiled peanuts; an imagined dialogue between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; input from Louis Armstrong, Frederick Douglass, and Blaze Starr; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys. In poems and songs, limericks and fake (or sometimes true) news stories, Blount talks about food in surprising and innovative ways, with all the wit and verve that prompted Garrison Keillor, in The Paris Review, to say: “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”

Save Room for Pie (ARC)

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Massachusetts

Save Room for Pie

Georgia

Photos and poems of cute dogs. #animals #pets #hardcover #photography 

California

The Ages of Dog

Who enters the world with the faintest inkling There's anything wrong with spontaneous tinkling? How do puppies see the world? Each other? Us? What do young dogs really think? What are the rites of passage from puppyhood to doghood? I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap is a fascinating collection of more than fifty delightful and witty photographs by Valerie Shaff, whose portraits are unique in their uncanny ability to capture the essence of each young dog and puppy. Roy Blount Jr.'s incomparable text brings these pups hilariously to life, and he comes as close to capturing the inner thoughts of canines as any human can. Together, Shaff and Blout take us to the brink of understanding the different ages of dogs. What's that? I've got Dirt on my tongue? And were you not Ever young?

I Am Puppy Hear Me Yap

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Set in the quaint hollow of Deer Lick, a mythical town resembling Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, this bizarre tale chronicles the fortunes of humble farmer John Gray, determined to marry off his daughter Mary to the scion of the town's wealthiest family.

A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage

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#paperback #marktwain #classics #connecticutyankee #kingarthur

Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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#paperback #dogs #dogportraits #animals #animalportraits #nonfiction


Pennsylvania

True Portraits of Dogs

Who hasn't looked into a dog's eyes and wondered what thoughts he is trying to express? This collection teams up dog portraits by Valerie Shaff with verse by humorist Roy Blount Jr to give an original and humorous portrayal of what dogs really think.

If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You

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The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; with Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

"If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic . . . that we'd hardly notice." --Chris Tucker, The Dallas Morning News

After forty years of making a living using words in every medium except greeting cards, Roy Blount Jr. still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the juju, the crackle, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. He has a strong sense of right and wrong, but he is not out to prescribe proper English. His passion is for questions such as these: Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince?

Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced his Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to new levels. From sources as venerable as the OED and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com, and especially from the author's own wide ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.

"Amusing, bemusing, and smart as hell." --Daniel Okrent, Fortune

"Danced in Blount's arms, English swings smartly." --Jack Shafer, The New York Times Book Review

"Gracefully erudite and joyous." --Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Sunday Globe

#paperback #fiction #marktwain #classic #fantasy #scifi #timetravel #arthurian #adventure #sciencefiction 

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (The Modern Library, 2001)

#hardcover #marktwain #fiction #classic brand new

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Save Room for Pie (ARC)

Roy Blount

Save Room for Pie

Roy Blount

Alphabetter Juice

Valerie Shaff, Roy Blount Jr.

I Am Puppy Hear Me Yap

Mark Twain; Roy Blount (Afterword by, Foreword by); Peter de Sève (Illustrator)

A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage

Mark Twain; Roy Blount (Introduction by); Daniel Carter Beard (Illustrator)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Valerie Shaff; Roy Blount

If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You

Roy Blount Jr.

Alphabet Juice

Mark Twain; Roy Blount (Introduction by); Daniel Carter Beard (Illustrator)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (The Modern Library, 2001)

Mark Twain; Roy Blount (Afterword by, Foreword by); Peter de Sève (Illustrator)

A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage