Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

A razor-sharp, irresistibly quotable collection on the American South and its eternal argument with the North—part comic memoir, part cultural diagnosis, and entirely the work of one of America's most gifted and incorrigible humorists

In this acerbic, eminently quotable book, humorist Roy Blount Jr. focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide. Scholarly, raunchy, biting, and affable, Blount takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers and yellow dog Democrats to Elv...