When Roy Blount, Jr. goes looking for the soul of America, he doesn’t find it in the “heart” of the South or the “mind” of the North. He finds it in those places where the two meet, clash and mock each other’s ways. It takes two to tango in America, and Blount has spent a lifetime taking wickedly funny jabs at the two clumsy dancers on the dance floor.
In a new collection, he’s hunting snakes, meeting Ray Charles, confronting his whiteness, considering the Rapture, and looking always for the nation’s overlap between North and South.
Listen to a conversation with Bill Buford about America’s South, its North, where the two meet and where they don’t.
Do you still see a bright, shining Mason Dixon line dividing this country? Or are we past all that? Has Roy Blount, Jr. got all us Americans dead to rights?
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