Quite enough of Calvin Trillin
Subtitle: forty years of funny stuff
By: Calvin Trillin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781400069828; 9780679604808
Subjects: Politicians; Civilization; Humor; American Authors; Biography
Description: "For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has commiteed blatant acts of funniness all over the place"--Jacket flap. A collection of Trillin's writings, arranged roughly by category.
Table of contents: title: Biographically speaking; title: The Media: liberal elite and otherwise; title: Tales of a clean-plate ranger; title: High society and just plain rich people; title: Criminal justice, criminals, justices, but (probably) no criminal justices; title: Life among the literati; title: Madly making money; title: The years with Navasky; title: Twenty years of pols: one poem each; title: NYC; title: Family matters; title: Beasts of the field, fish of the sea, and chiggers in the tall grass; title: English and some languages I don't speak; title: Bagels, Yiddish, and other Jewish contributions to western civilization; title: The sporting life; title: Science, technology, and the healing arts; title: Foreigners; title: Issues and other irritations; title: Seeing the world; title: National holidays.