Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the placeâ€”in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his â€œdeadline poetryâ€ for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isnâ€™t Going Out, in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater, and in the column USA Today called â€œsimply the funniest regular column in journalism.â€

Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance (â€œMy long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakesâ€) and the literary life (â€œThe average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.â€)

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 (â€œWe have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original mealâ€) and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: â€œThe one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, â€˜I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.â€™ â€ He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called â€œOn a Clear Day, I See Vladivostokâ€ and John Edwards with one called â€œYes, I Know Heâ€™s a Mill Workerâ€™s Son, but Thereâ€™s Hollywood in That Hair.â€

In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-09-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400069828

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-09-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400069828

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

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