Calvin Trillin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-89919-958-0
In these 77 wide-ranging essays, selected from his syndicated column ``Uncivil Liberties'' and dating from 1987 to 1990, Trillin is clever and funny much more than half the time--a remarkably high average. The targets of his wit and scorn include...
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Calvin Trillin. Random House, $26 (318p) ISBN 978-0-3995-9140-2
Violent deaths illuminate complex lives and desperate circumstances in this expanded reissue of the classic collection of the author’s true-crime reporting for the New Yorker. Journalist Trillin (Jackson, 1964) prowls America’s small towns and...
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Calvin Trillin. Random House, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-58824-2
Trillin (Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin), a regular contributor to the New Yorker since 1963, collects his insights and musings on race in America in previously published essays from over 50 years of reporting. They cover events from the 1964 voter...
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Calvin Trillin. Random, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6982-8
Humorist Trillin (A Heckuva Job; Deciding the Next Decider) entertains with this collection of his song lyrics, comic verse, and more than 130 of the brief essays he originally wrote for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Nation, and his...
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Calvin Trillin. Univ. of Texas, $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-292-72650-5
These 18 previously-published articles, many seen originally in The New Yorker, deal with the state to which Trillin's paternal grandparents emigrated only a few years into the 20th century, and tackle food, politics, crime, literature, and several...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Grand Central Publishing $12.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-67230-6
This collection of amiable satire draws from both Trillin's syndicated column and his writings for the New Yorker. (Aug.)
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Calvin Trillin, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (292p) ISBN 978-0-374-27846-5
In this collection of some 90 syndicated columns written in the past four years, the reliably amusing Trillin mixes whimsical fluff with sly stilettos. In the whimsy department are essays on monkfish and high tides, courtesy of his Nova Scotia...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (196p) ISBN 978-0-374-13552-2
In an irreverent, hilarious romp, Trillin ( Uncivil Liberties ) wraps a running political and cultural commentary around the weekly topical verses he has written for the Nation since 1990. His barbed satirical poems and accompanying essays find...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Mariner Books $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-64729-5
These short New Yorker pieces on offbeat topics, usually revealing decay at the core of the American dream, are diminished by a certain sameness. (Oct.)
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Calvin Trillin, Author Warner Books $11.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-446-67032-6
This collection was on PW 's bestseller list for seven weeks. (Apr.)
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Calvin Trillin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-395-59367-7
Most of these reports, originally appearing in the New Yorker , take a lengthier and more serious approach than that found in many of Trillin's previous collections ( U.S. Journal ; Travels with Alice ). Frequently he looks at the results of...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Avon Books $9 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71209-0
The humorist explores Europe and the Caribbean with his family, commenting on the events, etiquette and food they encounter. ``If he were a stand-up comedian, these essays would be called routines,'' PW stated. ``The peripatetic, insatiably curious...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Ticknor & Fields $18.45 (195p) ISBN 978-0-89919-910-8
Syndicated humor columnist, author ( If You Can't Say Something Nice ) and New Yorker writer Trillin publicly refers to his wife Alice as the principessa when they travel: ``I found it improved the service in hotels.'' With Alice and daughters...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-011483-6
``Trillin's flair for parodying the mores and foibles of private citizens and public figures alike is showcased in this collection of amusing essays,'' observed PW . ``Particularly apt'' are his send-ups on wine snobbery, a specious Oreo cookies...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Ticknor & Fields $16.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-89919-531-5
Trillin's (With All Disrespect, etc.) flair for parodying the mores and foibles of private citizens and public figures alike is showcased in this collection of amusing essays, which first appeared in the Nation and in his syndicated column....
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Calvin Trillin, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $12 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-52508-8
PW praised this ""charming"" memoir of the New Yorker writer's deceased father, a ""taciturn, stubbornly honest Kansas City grocer."" (June)
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Calvin Trillin, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $18 (117p) ISBN 978-0-374-20860-8
In his recent books Remembering Denny and Deadline Poet, Trillin included affectionate memories of his deceased father, a taciturn, stubbornly honest Kansas City grocer who wrote doggerel and planned for his son to go to Yale. This slim, charming...
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Calvin Trillin, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $19 (209p) ISBN 978-0-374-22607-7
In his most personal book, Trillin ( American Stories ) poignantly investigates the life of his Yale classmate and onetime close friend Roger ``Denny'' Hansen, a Rhodes scholar, academic and State Department employee whose extraordinary promise...
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Calvin Trillin, Author . Random $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6615-5
Trillin (A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
), a staff writer with the New Yorker
since 1963, has often written about the members of his family, notably his wife, Alice, whom he married in 1965. A graduate of Wellesley and Yale,
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Calvin Trillin, Author . Random $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-50808-0
These 14 essays—which first appeared in the New Yorker
and other magazines but have been reworked to form a cohesive whole—nearly all grow out of Trillin's concept of a "register of frustration and deprivation." Recorded...
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Calvin Trillin, Author, Calivin Trillin, Author . Random $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-50676-5
Trillin is a highly accomplished storyteller as well as a humorist and memoirist, and this oddly titled novel is by far his funniest and sunniest yet. It's a quintessentially New York comedy (and how pleasant to see those words in conjunction...
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New Yorker
writer Trillin, known for his slow-burn, deadpan humor, reads a selection of 17 pieces from his previously published essay collections American Fried, Third Helpings
and Alice, Let's Eat
. Helpful introductory comments include, "
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Calvin Trillin, Author, Calvin Trillin, Read by , read by the author. Random Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4216-9
Trillin's narration of his loving reminiscences of his late wife Alice might best be described as an "unobtrusive" narration: he steps back and lets the words speak for themselves. Unlike many other autobiographical narrators, he does...
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Calvin Trillin, illus. by Roz Chast. Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-82578-8
Rein in your expectations: this is a book of wonderful illustrations and lackluster rhymes. Many start with clever ideas about coping with an unfair world: “How Many Stuffed Animals?” introduces a kid who solves her fear of the dark by sleeping...
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Calvin Trillin. Random House, $31 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-59644-9
This entertaining collection from longtime New Yorker contributor Trillin (Jackson, 1964) collects previously published writings reflecting on his trade. The title essay celebrates the art of the lede, breaking down the brilliance of one written by...
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