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A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin TrillinI’ve been writing about the press almost as long as I’ve been in the game. At some point, it occurred to me that these disparate pieces from various places in various styles amounted to a multi-dimensional picture of what the press h...

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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 published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by v...

Calvin Trillin, who has something witty and insightful to say about any topic, has distinguished himself in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. For thirty years, he has reported on the American scene for The New Yorker. His memoir of the fifties, Remembering Denny, was a New York Times bestseller. But he is perhaps best known for his humorin his syndicated newspaper column, in the "Shouts and Murmurs" section of The New Yorker, in h...

Trillin on Texas" gathers some of the author's best writing on subjects near to his heart--politics, true crime, food, and rare books, among them--which also have a Texas connection. Sure to entertain Texans and other readers alike, Trillin proves once again that he is one of America's shrewdest observers and wittiest writers.

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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 and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose ("Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two Wives Who Had Serious Illnesses, Tries Desperately to Make Light of a Bad Cough"). With the same barbe...

Brilliant . . . The dean of American comic writers showcases his varied talents mocking the public and private lives of politicians, average citizens and himself."-The Star-Ledger 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, and in what USA Today called "simply the funniest regular column in journalism." N...

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 view, Trillin has said, "We weren't going to know whether you could bring down a presidency with iambic pentameter until somebody tried it.”Now Trillin is trying again, back at his pithy and hilarious best to comment on the President's decisio...

Too Soon To Tell reveals Trillin at his barbed and irrepressible best. His short takes send us back to contemporary life refreshed and delighted.

A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s "Remembering Denny" is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir of a friendship, a work of investigative reporting, and an exploration of a country and a time that captures something essential about how America has changed since Trillin--and Denny Hansen-...

In January 1961, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Trillin offers a sharply detailed portrait of how these two young people faced coldness, hostility, and occasional understanding on a southern campus in the midst of a great social change.

In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books over the next two decades--"American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat, " and" Third Helpings"--he established himself as, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of American eats." Trillin's three comic masterpieces ar...

For Murray Tepper, it's not about the journey it's about the parking spot, and in New York City, spaces are much sought after. He hunts them down, parks, reads his newspaper and gleefully dismisses those anxious to nab his spot. Such strange behaviour soon attracts attention. Funny and offbeat, this cosmopolitan novel about a seemingly straightforward man who inadvertently attracts the attention of an entire city has already been a big success...