Wry on Rye

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 18, 2016

Roy Blount Jr., regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!, member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the author of Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations (Sarah Crichton Books, 2016), offers his thoughtful humor on the subjects of pie, possums, and the time he ate at the Nathan's hot dog restaurant in Times Square.

Bonus: here's the New York Times article referenced in the interview about the Southern practice of eating dirt.

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