02973cam a2200337 4500 534826549 TxAuBib 20211118120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781598875003 1598875000 e1d6176b-68a7-4194-ba26-d665f49defb6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 131625 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Blount, Roy. Long Time Leaving [Libby Audiobook] : Dispatches From Up South. HighBridge, 2007. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 219MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 219MB. The first collection of the beloved humorist's sly, dry, hilarious essays in more than a decade focuses on a perennially popular topic: the South vs. the North. "When [Northerners] ask me to explain grits, I look at them like an Irishman who's been asked to explain potatoes." "When I was a boy in Georgia, college sports was Bobby Dodd versus Bear Bryant immemorial. Compared to that the Harvard-Yale game is a panel discussion." "Anybody who claims . . . not to have 'a racist bone' in his or her body is at best preracist and has a longer way to go than the rest of us." Hard-working humorist Roy Blount Jr. lives in the North but he's from the South, a delicious tension that has always informed and shaped his work. In this new collection, he directs his acerbic wit and finely-tuned insight toward the persistent and colorful differences between the two. His essays treat every conceivable topic on which North and South misunderstand each other, from music to sports, eating, education, politics, child-rearing, religion, race, and language ("remember when there was lots of discussion of 'ebonics'?"). In this eminently quotable collection, Blount does justice to the charming, funny, infuriating facets of Southern tradition and their equally odd Northern counterpoints. Humor (Nonfiction.) Nonfiction. Essays. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/131625-LongTimeLeaving.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/131625-LongTimeLeaving.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E1D6176B-68A7-4194-BA26-D665F49DEFB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/131625-LongTimeLeaving.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/131625-LongTimeLeaving.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E1D6176B-68A7-4194-BA26-D665F49DEFB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)