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QUITE ENOUGH OF CALVIN TRILLIN
By: 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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For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the placeโin The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his โdeadline poetryโ for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isnโt Going Out, in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater, and in the column USA Today called โsimply the funniest regular column in journalism.โ Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance (โMy long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakesโ) and the literary life (โThe average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.โ) 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 (โWe have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original mealโ) and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: โThe one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, โI bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.โ โ He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called โOn a Clear Day, I See Vladivostokโ and John Edwards with one called โYes, I Know Heโs a Mill Workerโs Son, but Thereโs Hollywood in That Hair.โ In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.
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