
Long Time Leaving
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A sly, dry, hilarious collection of essays—his first in more than ten years—from the writer who, according to The New York Times Book Review, is "in serious contention for the title of America's most cherished humorist.”
This time Blount focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide, North vs. South. Scholarly, raunchy, biting and affable, ol' Roy takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers to yellow-dog Democrats to Elvis's toes. And he shares experiences: chatting with Ray Charles, rounding up rattlesnakes, watching George and Tammy record, meeting an Okefenokee alligator (also named George, or Georgette), imagining Faulkner's tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of Nashville. His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between.
Roy on language: "Remember when there was lots of agitated discussion of Ebonics, pro and con? I kept waiting for someone to say that if you acquire white English, you can become Clarence Thomas, whereas if you acquire black English, you can become Quentin Tarantino.”
Roy on eating: "The way folks were meant to eat is the way my family ate when I was growing up in Georgia. We ate till we got tired. Then we went "Whoo!” and leaned back and wholeheartedly expressed how much we regretted that we couldn't summon up the strength, right then, to eat some more.”
Roy on racism: "Anybody who claims . . . not to have 'a racist bone' in his or her body is, at best, preracist and has a longer way to go than the rest of us.”
Blount's previous books have included reflections on a Southern president (Jimmy Carter), a novel about a Southern president (Clementine Fox), a biography of Robert E. Lee, a celebration of New Orleans, a memoir of growing up in Georgia, and the definitive anthology of Southern humor. Long Time Leaving is the capper. Maybe it won't end the Civil War at last, but it does clarify, or aptly complicate, divisive delusions on both sides of the longstanding national rift. It's a comic ode to American variety and also a droll assault on complacency North and South—a glorious union of diverse pieces reshaped and expanded into an American classic, from one of the most definitive and esteemed humorists of our time.
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- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Bringing in the Sheaves
- Part 2 - Setting the Table
- Chapter 2 - Why I'm Not an Outsider Artist
- Chapter 3 - The Right Shade of Blue?
- Chapter 4 - First, Tell Me What Kind of Reader You Are
- Chapter 5 - Out-of-Pants Experience
- Chapter 6 - Do You Know the Nothin' Man?
- Chapter 7 - You Hate Me Because I'm Southern
- Chapter 8 - The Rapture: Lighten Up
- Chapter 9 - Total Immersion, Up to a Point
- Chapter 10 - Don't Force It: An Introduction to Up from Methodism
- Chapter 11 - Can't I Be the Most Sophisticated Something Else?
- Chapter 12 - Why Communism Didn't Originate in South Carolina
- Chapter 13 - How about This Peculiar Institution?
- Chapter 14 - The Worm Bubble
- Chapter 15 - Gothic Baseball
- Part 3 - Eating
- Chapter 16 - Giving Good Gravy
- Chapter 17 - The Way Folks Were Meant to Eat
- Chapter 18 - Meat, Three, Wallace Stevens, and Me
- Chapter 19 - Mammy's Little Baby Loves What, Exactly?
- Chapter 20 - Food-Song Maven
- Chapter 21 - Chicken
- Chapter 22 - What Undid Uncle Bud
- Chapter 23 - The Terrys Do It Right
- Chapter 24 - A Grapefruit Moment
- Part 4 - Reading
- Chapter 25 - The Plurality of Tall
- Chapter 26 - The Peer Group That I Hesitate to Speak Its Name
- Chapter 27 - Listen Up, Youth
- Chapter 28 - Southern Humor: Love It or Leave It
- Chapter 29 - So Many Writers. Why?
- Chapter 30 - The Thwock and the Fury: Faulkner's Tennis
- Chapter 31 - In Elysium
- Chapter 32 - Confronting My Whiteness
- Chapter 33 - Little Truman, Happy at Last
- Chapter 34 - The Best of Gaynelle
- Chapter 35 - Oh, Come on, Smiley
- Chapter 36 - Fresh Mark
- Chapter 37 - Bits of Twain for Brits
- Chapter 38 - True Portis
- Chapter 39 - Those Shakespeherian Blues
- Part 5 - Watching, Listening
- Chapter 40 - Brother Ray: What He Said
- Chapter 41 - Violinist and Panther: Brother Dave
- Chapter 42 - The Clampetts Never Got to Whack Anybody
- Chapter 43 - No to Nashville, Yes to O Brother
- Chapter 44 - When the Lights Go Down South
- Chapter 45 - A Wang Dang Doodle Dandy?
- Chapter 46 - Cruelty to Elvis
- Chapter 47 - The King Was in the Countinghouse, Counting Out His Toes
- Chapter 48 - Love Those Bozzies
- Chapter 49 - He's Crossed Over to Classic
- Chapter 50 - Déjà Ahooey
- Chapter 51 - Country Song Entitlement
- Chapter 52 - Memphis Minnie's Blues: A Dirty Mother for You
- Part 6 - Traveling
- Chapter 53 - Me and Bobby E. Lee
- Chapter 54 - See the World But Don't Get Carried Away
- Chapter 55 - Right out There with the Dogs
- Chapter 56 - Dogs Whose Parents Got Out
- Chapter 57 - Snakes Alive
- Chapter 58 - Babel to Byzantium
- Chapter 59 - Augusta Un-Mastered
- Chapter 60 - Atlanta Explained
- Chapter 61 - The Olympics: "Atlanta Will Be Done Away"
- Chapter 62 - The Varsity Is Local
- Chapter 63 - The Guy-Crowded Gulf (1993)
- Chapter 64 - The Bottom Line (2005)
- Chapter 65 - There Be Alligators
- Chapter 66 - Hanging with the Klan
- Part 7 - Politicking
- Chapter 67 - Double-Bubba Bubble (1992)
- Chapter 68 - Briefly (1992)
- Chapter 69 - Bill, You're Due
- Chapter 70 - A Makeover for Uncle Sam? (1995)
- Chapter 71 - The New Southern Manhood (1995)
- Chapter 72 - He May Be a Dog, But He's Our Dog
- Chapter 73 - Sometimes Higbe's That Way (1998)
- Chapter 74 - Slick Willie and the Marble Model (2000)
- Chapter 75 - Yellow-dogma
- Chapter 76 - Looking Back on Bill (2000)
- Chapter 77 - How Bad Could It Be? (2000)
- Chapter 78 - The Story So Far (2006)
- About the Author
- Copyright
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