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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Random House
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 1400069823
EAN: 9781400069828
Kindle: B004KPM1VC
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Non-Fiction
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.
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