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Tepper Isn't Going Out
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 13.95BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not... more...
Feeding a Yen
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 15.00BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the ?continental cuisine? palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House?nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls ?sleepy-time restaurants, where everything is served on a bed of something... more...
About Alice
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.95BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . In Calvin Trillin?s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had ?a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day? and the mother who thought that if you didn?t go to every performance of your child?s school play,... more...
Obliviously On He Sails
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 12.95BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush?s rescue in the South Carolina primary... more...
A Heckuva Job
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 12.95BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004 bestseller in verse, George W. Bush is still in the White House. Taking a philosophical view, Trillin has said, ?We weren?t going to know... more...
Deciding the Next Decider
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.00BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . Displaying the form that made bestsellers of Obliviously On He Sails and A Heckuva Job , tales of the Bush Administration in rhyme, Calvin Trillin trains his verse on the 2008 race for the presidency. Deciding the Next Decider is an ongoing campaign... more...
Alice, Let's Eat
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 12.95BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . ?Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.? ? New York magazine In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in... more...
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00For 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... more...
Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableAcclaimed New Yorker journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America's funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of his wittiest articles sees him stalking a peripatetic Chinese chef, campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed to Spaghetti Carbonara and sampling the legendary Louisiana boudin... more...
Dogfight
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (?Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two... more...









