• Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.

    Ian Frazier: Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off 
 an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.