Roy Blount, Jr.'s Blog

• Wait, wait...Waiter, I think there's a duck in my soup

  February 15, 2009

  • Ivory says I have to blog more regularly, and although she suggested I write about how rude it is for someone to poke someone eles's corn, I've already covered that in an earlier book, so here I am and here's what I'm up to: I'm writing a book about Duck Soup. The movie, not...well, obviously the movie. At the same time, I'm writing a sequel to Alphabet Juice. I'll be on the radio again on Wait ...
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• A message from Roy Blount Jr.

  October 30, 2008

  • A couple months after I became Authors Guild president in 2006, we met with Google to propose a settlement to our class-action lawsuit. The Guild had sued Google in September 2005, after Google struck deals with major university libraries to scan and copy millions of books in their collections. Many of these were older books in the public domain, but millions of others were still under copyright ...
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• Language Belongs to "All Y'all"

  December 1, 2007

  • What a marvel regional speech is, for those who can get into it. People in Greeneville assured me that there are still plenty of folks farther up in the hills, and even there in town, who speak Smoky English. But Southern talk doesn’t have to be as rich as all that to be interesting. In the Sav-a-Lot supermarket one afternoon, I was involved in a four-part conversation, of maybe three ...
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