Calvin Trillin

Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme

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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....

Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

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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...

Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

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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...

Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse

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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...

Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel

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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...

About Alice

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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...

A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme

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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...

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

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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...

Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme

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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...