Long Time Leaving Dispatches from Up South
by Blount, RoyEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
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Summary
In this irreverent, eminently quotable book, Roy Blount Jr. focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide. Scholarly, biting, raunchy, and affable, Blount's musings may not end our Civil War, but they do clarify and aptly complicate divisive delusions on both sides of the longstanding national rift. A comic ode to American variety, Long Time Leaving is an assault on Northern and Southern complacency from one of the most celebrated essayists of our time. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Roy Blount Jr. is the author of nineteen other books. He is a panelist on NPR’s "Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!" a columnist for Oxford American, a contributing editor to The Atlantic, and president of the Authors Guild. He lives in western Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Bringing in the Sheaves | p. 3 |
| Setting the Table | |
| Why I'm Not an Outsider Artist | p. 17 |
| The Right Shade of Blue? | p. 20 |
| First, Tell Me What Kind of Reader You Are | p. 24 |
| Out-of-Pants Experience | p. 28 |
| Do You Know the Nothin' Man? | p. 33 |
| You Hate Me Because I'm Southern | p. 37 |
| The Rapture: Lighten Up | p. 42 |
| Total Immersion, Up to a Point | p. 45 |
| Don't Force It: An Introduction to Up from Methodism | p. 49 |
| Can't I Be the Most Sophisticated Something Else? | p. 53 |
| Why Communism Didn't Originate in South Carolina | p. 58 |
| How about This Peculiar Institution? | p. 62 |
| The Worm Bubble | p. 65 |
| Gothic Baseball | p. 69 |
| Eating | |
| Giving Good Gravy | p. 77 |
| The Way Folks Were Meant to Eat | p. 80 |
| Meat, Three, Wallace Stevens, and Me | p. 83 |
| Mammy's Little Baby Loves What, Exactly? | p. 86 |
| Food-Song Maven | p. 91 |
| Chicken | p. 97 |
| What Undid Uncle Bud | p. 101 |
| The Terrys Do It Right | p. 104 |
| A Grapefruit Moment | p. 109 |
| Reading | |
| The Plurality of Y'all | p. 115 |
| The Peer Group That I Hesitate to Speak Its Name | p. 121 |
| Listen Up, Youth | p. 126 |
| Southern Humor: Love It or Leave It | p. 129 |
| So Many Writers. Why? | p. 134 |
| The Thwock and the Fury: Faulkner's Tennis | p. 138 |
| In Elysium | p. 142 |
| Confronting My Whiteness | p. 143 |
| Little Truman, Happy at Last | p. 147 |
| The Best of Gaynelle | p. 151 |
| Oh, Come on, Smiley | p. 157 |
| Fresh Mark | p. 163 |
| Bits of Twain for Brits | p. 165 |
| True Portis | p. 175 |
| Those Shakespeherian Blues | p. 178 |
| Watching, Listening | |
| Brother Ray: What He Said | p. 185 |
| Violinist and Panther: Brother Dave | p. 189 |
| The Clampetts Never Got to Whack Anybody | p. 195 |
| Not to Nashville, Yes to O Brother | p. 199 |
| When the Lights Go Down South | p. 204 |
| A Wang Dang Doodle Dandy? | p. 215 |
| Cruelty to Elvis | p. 220 |
| The King Was in the Countinghouse, Counting Out His Toes | p. 224 |
| Love Those Bozzies | p. 229 |
| He's Crossed Over to Classic | p. 233 |
| Deja Ahooey | p. 235 |
| Country Song Entitlement | p. 240 |
| Memphis Minnie's Blues: A Dirty Mother for You | p. 245 |
| Traveling | |
| Me and Bobby E. Lee | p. 257 |
| See the World But Don't Get Carried Away | p. 262 |
| Right out There with the Dogs | p. 269 |
| Dogs Whose Parents Got Out | p. 275 |
| Snakes Alive | p. 277 |
| Babel to Byzantium | p. 282 |
| Augusta Un-Mastered | p. 287 |
| Atlanta Explained | p. 294 |
| The Olympics: "Atlanta Will Be Done Away" | p. 304 |
| The Varsity Is Local | p. 308 |
| The Guy-Crowded Gulf (1993) | p. 312 |
| The Bottom Line (2005) | p. 318 |
| There Be Alligators | p. 321 |
| Hanging with the Klan | p. 330 |
| Politicking | |
| Double-Bubba Bubble (1992) | p. 341 |
| Briefly (1992) | p. 342 |
| Bill, You're Due | p. 344 |
| A Makeover for Uncle Sam? (1995) | p. 350 |
| The New Southern Manhood (1995) | p. 354 |
| He May Be a Dog, But He's Our Dog | p. 359 |
| Sometimes Higbe's That Way (1998) | p. 362 |
| Slick Willie and the Marble Model (2000) | p. 366 |
| Yellow-dogma | p. 369 |
| Looking Back on Bill (2000) | p. 373 |
| How Bad Could It Be? (2000) | p. 376 |
| The Story So Far (2006) | p. 379 |
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