Crackers

by Blount, Roy, JR.

• ISBN13: 9780820320601
• ISBN10: 0820320609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who are southern, whom I misunderstand? Is there some authority I should consult?Crackers. Without this book, you will just flail around in the shallows of Southernity, with nothing solid to hold onto. Roy Blount Jr. puts you in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, people named Junior, a two-headed four-armed three-legged gospel-singing man, your feelings about the Carter administration. These specifics take you out into the depths.As a character inCrackersputs it, "I don't read books about the South, but I read southern books. Hoooo, people stealing one another's wooden legs, setting fires, making tarbabies out of one another. . . ."Crackersis a southern book.

Author Biography

Roy Blount Jr.'s works include the memoir Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story, the novel First Hubby, the screenplay for Larger than Life, the edited anthology Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, and such collections as Now, Where Were We? and Not Exactly What I Had in Mind. He is a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" and a columnist for the Oxford American. He lives in New York City and western Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

The Invocation	3	(6)
Pissing and Moaning	9	(6)
Nyah	15	(6)
Yazoo	21	(12)
The Damnedest Thing	33	(6)
Things in the Wrong Hands	39	(8)
Being from Georgia	47	(14)
South of the Border	61	(4)
A Many-Angled Thing	65	(14)
Trash No More	79	(10)
Early Billy	89	(24)
Smack Dab in the Media	113	(8)
Later Billy	121	(12)
Smiles and Grins	133	(10)
Whiskey and Blood	143	(32)
I May Have Sung with Jerry Jeff	175	(14)
Drugs in the White House	189	(14)
Heterosexism and Dancing	203	(16)
Redneck Androgyny	219	(8)
Possumism	227	(20)
Jrs.	247	(16)
Approaching the White House	263	(24)
The Curse of Georgians	287