{"id":14311,"date":"2013-03-14T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=14311"},"modified":"2013-03-14T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:13:11","slug":"popular-american-humorist-blount-to-speak-at-austin-peay-state-university-march-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/14\/popular-american-humorist-blount-to-speak-at-austin-peay-state-university-march-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular American humorist Blount to speak at Austin Peay State University March 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"APSUClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Roy Blount Jr. is a hard man to classify. Is he a sports writer, an essayist or one of America\u2019s leading humorists?<\/p>\n

The Washington Post called his first book, \u201cAbout Three Bricks Shy\u2026And the Load Filled Up,\u201d one of the 10 best sports books ever written. Time magazine puts him \u201cin the tradition of the great curmudgeons like H.L. Mencken and W.C. Fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roy Blount Jr. to speak at APSU<\/p><\/div>\n

The late Norman Mailer said \u201cpage for page, Roy Blount is as funny as anyone I\u2019ve read in a long time,\u201d and Garrison Keillor praised Blount\u2019s ability to be \u201cuncouth and soulful all in one sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Playboy magazine described him best when it printed that he was \u201cknown to the critics as our next Mark Twain.\u201d At 8:00pm on March 26th, Blount will visit the Austin Peay State University Mabry Concert Hall for a special reading and book signing, sponsored by the APSU President\u2019s Office and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Blount, a graduate of Vanderbilt and Harvard, is the author of some 23 books, and he is a regular panelist on National Public Radio\u2019s popular news quiz show, \u201cWait, Wait\u2026Don\u2019t Tell Me.\u201d He worked for several years as a writer and editor for Sports Illustrated and later as a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly magazine.<\/p>\n

His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Playboy, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and National Geographic. His work has also been anthologized in such collections as The Best of Modern Humor, The Elvis Reader, The Ultimate Baseball Book and The Sophisticated Cat.<\/p>\n

For more information on the reading, contact the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at 931.221.7876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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