Roy Blount Jr.
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Roy Blount Jr. Follows His Paper Trail
A few words on words from the past
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Roy Blount Jr. Reaches New Lows
For one Southerner, shrinking stature is more than a matter of inches
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Roy Blount Jr. Mans His Compost
Behind every good gardener is a homemade dirt heap
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Roy Blount Jr. Reads the Fine Print
Looking between the lines in New Orleans
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When Life Hands Roy Blount Jr. Abe Lemons
Remembering a “Southern” original
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Roy Blount Jr. Grabs Life by the Collards
Arriving at a truce between leafy greens
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Roy Blount Jr. Reaches a Big One
A few choice words about Father Time
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Roy Blount Jr.’s War of Worms
A thoughtful study on worms, from gardening partners to backyard foes
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Roy Blount Jr.’s Diamond Dreams
The hall of fame induction speech
that might have been
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Roy Blount Jr.’s Mosquito Quandaries
A piercing discussion on the point of mosquitoes
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Roy Blount Jr. Goes Whole Hogwash
Getting to the bottom of a linguistic trough
Travel
Lake House Reverie
Roy Blount Jr. steps back in time to his family’s old-school summers on the water
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Roy Blount Jr. Gets His Goats
Not feeling sheepish about the barnyard Billy
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Play Ball!
Recollections from spring on the diamond
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Crazy for Croquettes
Getting to the meat of a beloved salmon dish—and Faulkner
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Marooned!
The truth about desert-island “getaways”
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Stop That Weed!
Protecting a courtyard from an unsightly intruder
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Can You Be Immune to Dance Fever?
Ruminating on a reluctance to boogie
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Florida, Man!
Rambling along in the Sunshine State
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Southern Ingenuity
Thoughts on some inventions we need—and some we don’t