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Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces
E-bok, 2011
74 kr
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Acclaimed 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 …
Heckuva Job
More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
E-bok, 2007
76 kr
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BONUS: 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 …
Obliviously On He Sails
The Bush Administration in Rhyme
E-bok, 2007
79 kr
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BONUS: 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 …
Alice, Let's Eat
Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
E-bok, 2009
158 kr
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BONUS: 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 …
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings
Häftad, 1994
340 kr
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Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
Häftad, 2004
277 kr
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Jackson, 1964
And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
E-bok, 2016
79 kr
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over …
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Häftad, 2017
295 kr
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Killings
E-bok, 2017
142 kr
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism “Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and …
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Forty Years of Funny Stuff
E-bok, 2011
142 kr
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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 …
Dogfight
The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
E-bok, 2012
189 kr
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In 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 …
Education in Georgia
Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia
Häftad, 1992
418 kr
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In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Calvin Trillin, then a reporter for Time Magazine, attended the court fight that led to the …
Trillin on Texas
Häftad, 2023
281 kr
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A remarkably perceptive portrait of the Lone Star State, this collection of pieces from the New Yorker, the Nation, and other publications presents highlights of bestselling author Calvin Trillin’s classic writing on Texas subjects."Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, …
Tepper Isn't Going Out
A Novel
E-bok, 2002
147 kr
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BONUS: 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 …
Feeding a Yen
Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
E-bok, 2003
110 kr
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BONUS: 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 …
About Alice
E-bok, 2006
180 kr
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BONUS: 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 …
Deciding the Next Decider
The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
E-bok, 2008
82 kr
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BONUS: 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. …
Astorians, Eccentric and Extraordinary
Av Karen Kirtley, Calvin Trillin m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
230 kr
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n 1993, The New Yorker published Calvin Trillin’s memorable article on the eccentric Flavel family of Astoria, the descendants of Captain George Flavel, whose ornate Queen-Anne-style mansion is a tourist draw today. With Trillin’s gracious consent, “First Family of Astoria” is reprinted in Part One …
