Dave Barry on Roy Blount Jr.
Dave Barry is an author and humorist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated column, which ran in more than 500 newspapers and was the inspiration for the TV show Dave's World. He has also written dozens of bestselling books, including Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, the novel Swamp Story, and, most recently, Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass. Along with Ridley Pearson, Dave wrote the bestselling Starcatchers series of young-adult novels, one of which was adapted as the Tony-award winning Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher.
His subject is Roy Blount Jr. (pronounced "blunt"), who was raised in Decatur, Georgia, and has been writing about athletes, the South, language, movies, food, and a lot of other things for almost sixty years. He's published twenty-four books, the first of which, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load (1974), was about the Pittsburgh Steelers and was described by The New Yorker as "the best of all books about pro football," and the latest of which is Save Room for Pie: Food, Songs, and Chewy Ruminations. He's contributed articles, essays, and other stuff to 171 different publications.
Roy is a panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me; appeared frequently on A Prairie Home Companion; created and starred in a one-man show in New York, Roy Blount's Happy Hour and a Half; and wrote the screenplay for the Bill Murray movie Larger Than Life.
Photo by Joan Griswold.
Links
Roy Blount's website.
Roy's Substack.
Dave Barry's website.
Roy's 1984 Sports Illustrated profile of Yogi Berra.
The Rock Bottom Remainders singing "Wild Thing" (Roy is in the long-sleeved white t-shirt).
Video clip of Roy on the f-word (your moment of Roy Blount).
His subject is Roy Blount Jr. (pronounced "blunt"), who was raised in Decatur, Georgia, and has been writing about athletes, the South, language, movies, food, and a lot of other things for almost sixty years. He's published twenty-four books, the first of which, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load (1974), was about the Pittsburgh Steelers and was described by The New Yorker as "the best of all books about pro football," and the latest of which is Save Room for Pie: Food, Songs, and Chewy Ruminations. He's contributed articles, essays, and other stuff to 171 different publications.
Roy is a panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me; appeared frequently on A Prairie Home Companion; created and starred in a one-man show in New York, Roy Blount's Happy Hour and a Half; and wrote the screenplay for the Bill Murray movie Larger Than Life.
Photo by Joan Griswold.
Links
Roy Blount's website.
Roy's Substack.
Dave Barry's website.
Roy's 1984 Sports Illustrated profile of Yogi Berra.
The Rock Bottom Remainders singing "Wild Thing" (Roy is in the long-sleeved white t-shirt).
Video clip of Roy on the f-word (your moment of Roy Blount).
