### Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now

Roy Blount Jr

Author of books called "delightfully erudite," "on the short shelf of the cracked masterpieces of New Journalism," "as funny as anything I've read in a long time" (Norman Mailer), and "what was called in the Italian Renaissance 'sprezzatura.'

Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now

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[Roy Blount Jr](https://substack.com/@royblountjr)  Jun 15

[**It Has Been Pointed Out to Me**  
So no wonder nobody called.  
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now](https://royblountjr.substack.com/p/it-has-been-pointed-out-to-me)

[Roy Blount Jr](https://substack.com/@royblountjr)  Jun 15

[**Looking Back on Dad's Day**  
Richard Nixon declared Father’s Day a national holiday in 1972. Part of the official proclamation was, "To have a father -- to be a father -- is to come very near the heart of life itself."  
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now](https://royblountjr.substack.com/p/looking-back-on-dads-day)

[Roy Blount Jr](https://substack.com/@royblountjr)  Jun 11

[**AI-yi-yi**  
According to Dan Chiasson in the New York Review of Books, you can tell a text was generated by AI if it uses (falls back on? bandies about?) the word delve.  
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now](https://royblountjr.substack.com/p/ai-yi-yi)