Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor [Hardcover]

The richest vein of American humorthe broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventivecan be found below the Mason-Dixon line, where the comic impulse just naturally seems allied to the native storytelling genius, and the sacred and the profane are on the closest of terms.There may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a Southern writer on a roll.