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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

Release on 2011-09-13 | by Calvin Trillin

Author: Calvin Trillin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780679604808
Category: Humor
Page: 368
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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

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, and in the column USA Today called “simply the funniest regular column in journalism.” Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance (“My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes”) and the literary life (“The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.”) In Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, the author deals with such subjects as the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers (“We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal”) and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: “The one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, ‘I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.’ ” He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called “On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok” and John Edwards with one called “Yes, I Know He’s a Mill Worker’s Son, but There’s Hollywood in That Hair.” In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.

Language: en
Pages: 368

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

Authors: Calvin Trillin

Categories: Humor

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-13 - Publisher: Random House

Language: en
Pages:

Enough's Enough

Authors: Calvin Trillin

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Mariner Books

A sparkling commentary on our national life--public and private--at the close of the '80s, as seen through the eyes of a fresh, original, provocative, inspiring, and funny writer.People.

Language: en
Pages: 2182

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Authors: Andrew Smith

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-31 - Publisher:

The second edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, originally published in September 2004, covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements that have shaped the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. Entries range across historical periods and the trends that characterize them.

Language: en
Pages: 208

Feeding a Yen

Authors: Calvin Trillin

Categories: Travel

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-06 - Publisher: Random House

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 restaurants, where everything

Language: en
Pages: 224

Tepper Isn't Going Out

Authors: Calvin Trillin

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-15 - Publisher: Random House

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