Calvin Trillin: 14 books
by Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism
“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first...
by Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you...
Alice, Let's Eat
Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
“Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”
–New York magazine
In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided...
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his “deadline poetry” for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isn’t Going Out, in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater,...
Feeding a Yen
Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the “continental cuisine” palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House—nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls “sleepy-time...
Jackson, 1964
And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present
In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South....
by Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
"Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so's you'd know it." So Calvin Trillin introduces this collection of articles and poems about a place that turns up surprisingly often when he's ostensibly writing about something else. Whether reporting on the...
Obliviously On He Sails
The Bush Administration in Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing...
A Heckuva Job
More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004 bestseller in verse, George W. Bush is still in the White House. Taking a philosophical...
Deciding the Next Decider
The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Displaying the form that made bestsellers of Obliviously On He Sails and A Heckuva Job, tales of the Bush Administration in rhyme, Calvin Trillin trains his verse on the 2008 race for the presidency.
Deciding...
by Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The first children's poetry collection by award-winning writer Calvin Trillin -- illustrated by acclaimed illustrator Roz Chast! "I know this shot will guard me from the measles and the mumps -- Diseases that could leave me with two different kinds of lumps. I'm glad the stuff that's in the shot...
Tepper Isn't Going Out
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems...
Dogfight
The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign.
Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (“Callista Gingrich, Aware...
by The New Yorker Magazine, Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.
This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives....