Humorist Roy Blount Jr.

Southern-raised humorist Roy Blount Jr. took the midnight train out of Georgia a long time ago, to make a life well north of the Mason-Dixon line.

But you cannot take the South out of the Southern boy, and definitely not out of Blount's lifetime of humorous essays and exasperation over America's North-South incomprehension.

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.

This hour On Point: Roy Blount Jr. on the North, South, and in-between.

Guests:

Roy Blount, Jr., author of the new book "Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South."