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Wait Wait: to be announced
* October 29, Lousiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge
* November 9 - 13, Words and Music Festival, New Orleans
* November 16, New York Public Library,
discussion with James Shapiro
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| Alphabetter Juice or the Joy of Text |
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released by
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Blount’s selection of words is particularly 'sonicky' and is accompanied by amusing facts and anecdotes and crazy stories that show the peculiarities of etymology and definitions and the deep and abiding beauty of words. Writers and readers will love this book. -- Booklist |
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
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"Folksy, warm, and up on his Marx lore -- he seems not only to have seen every one of the brothers' movies, but to have read early drafts of every script -- Blount makes for swell company ... especially during his delightfully erudite exegesis of the justly famous 'mirror scene.'" -- NEW YORK TIMES
“Hail, Hail, Euphoria! is the most lyrical, insightful, scholarly, illuminating and celebratory 144 pages I’ve ever sat down with. This book is a stream of fun." —WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Roy Blount Jr. knows from humor. In [Hail, Hail, Euphoria!], he sets out to remedy the lack of a scene-by-scene commentary on the Marx Brothers’ greatest movie, the sublimely nonsensical Duck Soup."— WASHINGTON POST
“An essential read for Marx Brothers fans, those curious about the melding of war and humor in film, and browsers looking for a good read.” — LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Alphabet Juice |
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now in paperback
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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