Forum; Roy Blount, Jr. An Anthology of Southern Humor

from the longhorn radio network the university of texas at austin this is for him mission which is really important anyway so that all of modern american literature grows other one well mr mark twain oh roy blunt jr editor of roy blunt book a sudden you were published by w w norton and company whose notion of the tradition within him or enjoy has to be done about the new yorker which i'm barbara beardsley and borrow money be white and i am and politicians rarely but dump it was a little bit thin and pitched or compared to some of the deeper roots year he really comes out of mark twain and another rowdy southerners of all stripes and descriptions today this is olive today form features a discussion of

southern humor with writer and humorist john used to blunt was asked by the normal publishing company to put to go they're an anthology of southern writings that reflect the history depth and breadth of certain matters reaching back to the nineteenth century to the present <unk> let included sources as varied as mark twain and lyle lovett katherine anne porter and for immigrant and an h l mencken and jerry clower roy blunt jr describes what goes into southern humor so they were very well lots of oil bill isn't your traditional have new yorker humor traditionally very traditional and wary of dealing with us action violent and while listening race in them down and dirty politics where some neighbors that have been as head writer you know at all and it even i think that more women and so you really are in the way you think about

all of the only other people dorothy parker and alan in the prominent former investor also scared of women mostly at least in that in their writing or where is so years ago from mali well about in the piece that you have but lawrence king who talks about her having been raised a lady it seems like the south more so the north has more layers of who's supposed to be warriors is a source of humor yeah they still sell the same or the testes a summer classes to empower more glass cup obvious and what it is is a lot more blatant or dance in the south has been more blatant official than that over the years that has been the north and i

spend the fact that it's been so an awful has been no food for humor but also are like that the lakers nobody's as in part because some of the guy's talking about you know in the market you go back to new york are traditionally are the traditions of robot and two really a really difficult issues and an impolite people does the fact that it seems so urban have something to do with it are you under georgia's plan an urbanite send us how things in your condition were a reflection reflection you are not a video starlets only the danger and the real excitement in your

village of seminal ocean of your portrayal of enormous notion of new york premier on the motion the art world let's say that the new art nashua new york as it is in apropos but i am if you didn't have to know that there's a solid moral hurly burly and a rough and tumble in and so they were well it takes place in the city are or out in the country within a year within an elderly or people or when i was studying literature i seem to remember some professors would talk about things that we're pathological about sentiment you should delight in that audience of forest pathology will use on a huge huge event two seventh you know look if we looked a fatwa or two the sad or as a polite society but you do it before her for an area for the roots of love

pain in the balance and and end our as a novelist that have gone on in the south and that's what looters west to not be not be so arlene hadn't avoid specific does it offer us there's this literature of the year the stories and poems announces it your side do they offer us solutions to the human condition now dalai lama wants listen to human condition for that of all crossed was always no but i think you were studying religion until we die but that only written except it as a major earnhardt says the art in general are sort of outrage about human condition than orleans to know the spanish reflect how strange the human

condition is and more and just to reflect how the seven major addresses songwriting tends to reflect how strange language and delivered other activists as in the salad that leverage is funny to you lately with babies which is funny and but the weekend rollout of the notion that it's some strange about language and we tried to spell the strange form of communication it gets even funnier i think southern talk writing tends to be aware of that in except missouri fruition sporting notion of a language also be willing to let language that flamboyance and go over the top and crazy and i think that is that's true of music that drives himself and droughts and so fortunately end also unfortunately is there are universal south

you know the roof of a political and i mean in the sense of people from tennessee carolinians mississippians now how far apart do they go from not ever normally is yeah i think that they're in a normal think that there are lots of different stripes two thousand and one there were and are well this book to reflect is the southern you were enormously diverse people and i can't define the difference between louisiana he worries tears anywhere accept the obvious things that they go be a whole lot more alligators in the news in a game but girl he does all sort of every other writers have been funny in the sense from little richard to value or wealthy in from la love it too mark linkous just plain there's all sorts of texas law have advantages in their goal all sorts of different objects and for the others

louis armstrong no more of new orleans is one of a full really really funny scenes and i think that the southern new arms are barred his novels tend to be do not be embarrassed by a funny stuff words if you've read or sometimes a serious people outside the store south when mba show mr grosz owners but i think that serious people inside the south park willing to be funny about themselves and about what they have done and that's true i think of most great writers mark twain and dickens and change their own tolstoy all big ones are kind of sloppy and no one to go up the now empty sentimental and funny right in the middle of all of the cultural stuff you get nineteenth and twentieth century literary figures hear how did you decide who you'd keep really that i've tried to survey year old callie oh

well ellen john lewis whoa whoa so riders who might fit into this book and a fan base is bound as many of them as i could that our we're still fighting going to reflect this trio's some list of thrones orphan list of firms enormous know from law jazz rock n roll funny on the page have you run across letters from natalie johnson no he doesn't was a from columbus georgia i can't keep track of who's from jordan and ali johnson was the noted screenplay as a screenwriter and director in the thirties and forties he wrote the script for grapes of wrath and you

wrote love glass of looking wu xinbo overload only one directed so many walkers says are is from georgia and the book is the barrio of his letters came out edited by his daughter so and there are some funny letters in there about how long about george sanders didn't break into his house while his mr george orwell they are distorting herself with porfirio rosalee a pick up a couple in there and get in the eu in flavor old like ours to forgo causes slavery and so all which is you know it's a long story but there are a lot of funny story is that going to get they powers are of the fundraiser were obviously so they were but there were bustling before about the south and i also think the spirits of all over it was nothing so they were no question whether texas is in the cell phones

pleasure rachel follow the verizon texan steak you think so upon an airline i wanted to it was going to or soler is another little nugget out at the edge of the envelope includes a recipe shivered maker business she wrote a book called vibration clicking here for later overturned or run a bucket full of our travel stories which just tend to feature well recipes and watches as she talks about the humorous aspects of the only in it's by

a person elevating music lyric to the level of literature today really belong there and when there was a major aspect of the book was trying to find the lyrics that worked on the paycheck to get that tune out of your head he transcribed them down the page and let him sit around while i'm trying to forget to do and then realizes they're still funny lot of blues into interviews it will be funny just built around me so funny well unless you're hearing the voice of a lot of it's an intellectual voice on a golf ball point of this book was to find than it has to be a book that you can read the movie don't know the gene and so it's a it's a book of literary and you were in the sense that literally means rotten down on the page and so it has to be written disorders cannabis can light margarine

the kind of the immigrants forced to be really well of course and for the teens and solo voice over work oh sure i suppose until lately many anthologies on southern literature i'll often if not included many black seventeen rider was really good but sellers and i also be wielding a variety of little richard mcdonough the book and wetzel rich reminisces about his large island and other ways my father's a jolly gradually segways into the lyrics of nixon's license or delightful in there but also right now for her france's you know like over the fire out a ritual for historical nineteen fifty five about a

character like big mama thorton and a character like health news i'm dan charles just not there and the satirical stories and wrote black version of switches the news well actually no made up to more than an orange was quarantined also taught harrier story is not about animals what about slaves and so and so a lot of the larger that barb wire writers that is interesting to be looked at in the context of think of song he wanted to good news i guess i would marvel enjoyed generous and powerful you know somebody who's presidential nomination for you but possibility otherwise you see you what they all have in common and also ways of their different ways they dealt with same material with somebody like a richard wright does belong to the canon

the adult literature of belonging to the canon of selling it were so doesn't story in there at the theater of it but even so people who are you know commercially can sing the printed word possibly for a richer right but probably don't know who's sterling a brown well that really was a thoroughly well below her discoveries of forty years cuz i never asked earlier brown an aggressive was hearing about it when i was reading about you know butler tournament about him as a professor and a mysterious virus which is really funny road he wrote today say brown i started around their night lights and he's a brown i've got the blues anymore and you right right right tight so where's the skin and were literally on the page but are also got a whole lot of soul four fourths of foreign

language vernacular english language is of the great thing about martin luther was finally said that the american luter began october there was a war closer look put together a formal read an english as we inherited it from britain withdrew and that's what i love and writing in fact if somebody really well written and yet so like an american science and that's true story rounds force which i found really are tight end up and serious and l and those are special pleading about it was sort of burning political elite on a narrow sense but it's certainly not the crowd at that and i think it's tough and funny and did you have a problem at all with the man a dialect he really used i love you

people it would lead to a larger read from listening to my mother read a car and the stores are looking at the year lydia the pages you read and seen that you could spell better than literary you actually spell away people don't they like by my b i n e b u i buy and buy it so those grooves they were and they share a job it's nice to know that is all ms lovell an evolutionary that bubbled up in the way people talk and that's easily and i was even use dallek to make people seem dull but you can also use knowledge to make the missionary work and staff and that's what our well i go about it cause it brings you back to your old buses of white origination appreciate that mergers are actually a product of them out were you able to come to any conclusions about

what center in literature does know where it's going really was trying trying to find things from throughout issue so they're well written and still funny and i was allowed as a roof reflect important things that happen in the south and in force at all cause most of your audience your phone you're writing about important things in writing now in a racially diverse generally the original exiles are fighting a story lately but i know i want to and approve a fiery about developments and so i think that much about how it's changed but the politics there changed so yeah but you know fred's as well william alexander percy was a man is why it would appeal but there was an irony in the city but if it is that he was a real liberal who in fact sued a local sheriff for brutality against black men in the jail and

made lifelong alleys of some of the year of the meanest whites and in his town and who fought the ku klux klan fifty orphans and international fugitive his father in similar video of her class whites stood up for his criminality says that the real malaise of awfully awful it causes really perilous agenda and agarwal essay about him before quoted from his book when i'm totally going to say do not really know where you are going to perceive thousands incorrect by village full of good salary often displays you also say that he you know and i didn't really know what was going on at the time but he was trying to do to race but he wrote a list of the still funny and that's the main thing i want to do catcher in unprocessed <unk>

yeah i mean i think if you show are different kinds of food book that shows a lot about the culture and various and spring from people who've been usual partisan people are not been doing as all parties is i think they are well if we looked at the bottom of a v genealogical chart blitzer of fewer choices of what what is the phalanx at this level who's who read now of the fighting are there was an hour nine dollars late june will parks james wilcox is robocall modern baptists into venus and exquisitely finally he yelled there's dirt in the er granillo been under appreciated and recognize that iraq will have a selection in a boat from the novel modern actually he's been probably one thousand of collective soul years is hard to take excerpts of novels

you know people are and no one and they build up over the course of the novel and so i'll play like surfer does his story justice but he's a surveyor i would recommend there's a lot of funny southern journalist lived there several of you you know about what happens in your analysis these are about the texas legislature another piece about how she would get her hair color with two favorite the bottom of baltimore this is funny and just as importantly there's ben jenkins no limit texas marks on the walls and as well known for that was a gun and a half john charlton review that sort of conservative citizens is not too conservative to appreciate rock'n'roll under his five a whole different perspective who is certain to

syria word is a common knowledge from south carolina who's a robocall hairdo which is is a totally novel she's young writer in her thirties who's written three novels of compared what's to flannery o'connor has a funny set a writer so that i think a lot of us who knew the writers out there but probably the bulk of the writers in the book or so our own i won't give too much a version of the william long bailey white so i'm sorry but to have somebody from the latino vote for the sound of your letter of the first ally worth mentioning is joseph mitchell who is the quentin met

all the quintessential new yorker i'm a writer for the new yorker those from north carolina wrote about north carolina as well as about your people in my absolute hero pieces about great talkers in new york which we're live from most new yorker pieces in that they were about people of the fish or gender or shower or preachers are you like they're loved to talk and in keeping the southern tradition well funny you know people don't know about is john fergus ryan the robocall redneck bride which is funny book you tell me a story recently is the he was interviewing jerry lewis luong was in town say and john first round was doing a story about any and john wrote his wife a lot of major gaffe

jeff is quite racist to ms reiman <unk> contusion ok so you're just for tomorrow's warrick up and then start it with his call for sale lots of years the project on over north carolina writes funny weird funny stories wrote one story told the beard about this rail division is the one about this is dr collins beard with the genders of ransoms and snuck into susan's how big that there was in those years wonderful fantasy sports coverage sweden's filled out the whole movie and we're going to do that one of the chapters in here of the book were the sessions as cold here be dragons are held rallies butter beans have an alligator taste which is about food and animals and the reference devoted means comes

from chemical aren't there more which it are thrown time where whitley hello baby alligator dollars of debt and his uncle bob was over for dinner and the baby alligator gotten bit of obama with tiger logo but couldn't get off it was up around the table shaking has shaken his van fleet honestly now they're often violent there are often with lou prosecuted and landed in the bottom part and also killed guest antoine has been roy blount jr editor of a new anthology published by w w norton and company entitled why bonds book of southern humor the views expressed on this program do not necessarily reflect the

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