Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation's "deadline poet" in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva Job, Obliviously on He Sails, and About Alice. He has also written .. [... more]
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101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells
 YOUR gripes and grousings...but elevated by humor: In the hands of humorists, all those things that really get under your skin suddenly take on a new life--an amusing one, that doesn't sound like whining! I found most of my personal pet peeves: the [... more]
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Messages from My Father: A Memoir
From Amazon.com: "The man was stubborn," writes Calvin Trillin -- the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family -- to begin this memoir of his father. Although he had a strong vision of the sort of person he wanted his son to be, Abe [... more]
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Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas ...
better than XO Sauce: I read this book on a recent trip to Los Angeles, where I regrettably realized that Nate and Al's in Beverly Hills had better whitefish salad than Murray's in NYC. When Calvin Trillin would visit his daughters in California, he used [... more]
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Family Man
From Amazon.com: "Handing out advice on family matters is not my game," begins Calvin Trillin in Family Man, and indeed, those in search of practical child-rearing tips would be advised to look elsewhere. What Trillin does have to offer is a [... more]
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Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
Author: Calvin Trillin Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 817 EAN: 9780812978063 ISBN: 0812978064 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2006-12-26 Release Date: 2006-12-26 [... more]
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Best Food Writing 2007
From Amazon.com: For food lovers, the next best thing to eating is reading about it. Best Food Writing 2001, compiled by Holly Hughes, offers these and other readers the year's most memorable food writing from books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, [... more]
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The American Heritage College Dictionary
From Amazon.com: Despite the word "college" in the title, The American Heritage College Dictionary is the best choice for anyone who's looking for a substantive desk dictionary but isn't quite ready to commit to the space an unabridged takes. [... more]
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Best Food Writing 2000 (Tr)
From Amazon.com: What's more fun: eating food or reading about it? Justifying the latter proposition in style, Best Food Writing 2000 offers an enticing selection of the year's best book, magazine, newspaper, newsletter, and Internet food prose. It culls [... more]
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Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, ...
From Amazon.com: "The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business." --A.J. Liebling There are at least as many theories about writing as there are writers to expound them. In Advice to Writers Jon Winokur has collected [... more]
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Super Chef: The Making of the Great Modern Restaurant ...
top of my list: . Super Chef by Juliette Rossant is real find for all of us who love food (and who doesn't?) It's fun, informative and no calories! It makes the top of my list for gifts from a good summer read into the holidays. . Write on, Ms. Rossant! . [... more]
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About Alice
Heart-Felt Errata: After a book goes to press, readers will send in comments about corrections that are needed. In the next printing, there will sometimes be a brief bound-in page of corrections. If the book goes into another edition, those corrections [... more]
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