This compendium of interrelated essays addresses such significant male secrets as the ways in which men tell time, the things that men think women do not know, the truth about history, seasonal celebrations, and other topics

What Men Don't Tell Women

Humor & Entertainment

Blount, Roy

Humor

Penguin??Books

Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists No man of letters savors the ABC’s, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz,is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists, tangs, and energies of letters and their combinations in Alphabet Juice, to wide acclaim. Now, Alphabetter Juice. Which is better. This bookis for anyone—novice wordsmith, sensuous reader, or career grammarian—who loves to get physical with words. What is the universal sign of disgust, ew, doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless, but not frogless, in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the U. S. Supreme Court find relevance in gollywoddles? Might there be scientific evidence for the sonicky value of hunch? And why would someone not bother to spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com? Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blountdraws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a “girl gillie,” and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a “giantess” than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative. As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, “The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance ‘sprezzatura,’ that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat.” Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste.

Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text

Sarah Crichton Books

Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude

Writers and rock music critics describe their experiences touring with the rock band they formed to raise money for charity

Arts & Photography

KING,STEPHEN

More

Pearson, Ridley

TAN, AMY.

Music

Plume

Presents a wacky chronicle of a road trip with some of America's  most popular writers--including Stephen King, Amy Tan, Barbara  Kingsolver, and Dave Barry--who leave their jobs to hit the road--on a  bus--as a performing rock and roll band. 

Mid-Life Confidential

Literature & Fiction

United States

HighBridge Audio

This collection teams up dog portraits by Valerie Shaff and verse by humorist Roy Blount Jr., to give an original portrayal of what dogs really think.

If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs

Shaff, Valerie

Photography & Video

Bulfinch

A delight for dog lovers and, until dogs learn to talk, the best way to remember that the "inner dog" is probably much like the outer one, this winning collection teams up dog portraits and humorous verse to offer an honest, original, and hilarious portrayal of what dogs really "think." 50 duotone illustrations.

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