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 verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York.
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The Big New Yorker Book of Cats
eBook | 304 pages | Random House | Pets - Cats; Pets - Essays; Humor - Topic - Animals
978-0-679-64478-1 (0-679-64478-4)
October 1, 2013 | $19.99
Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl...
Written by The New Yorker Magazine
Contribution by Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher
Foreword by Anthony Lane
Contribution by Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher
Foreword by Anthony Lane
eBook | 304 pages | Random House | Pets - Cats; Pets - Essays; Humor - Topic - Animals
978-0-679-64478-1 (0-679-64478-4)
October 1, 2013 | $19.99
Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl...
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The Big New Yorker Book of Cats
Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House | Pets - Cats; Pets - Essays; Humor - Topic - Animals
978-0-679-64477-4 (0-679-64477-6)
October 1, 2013 | $46.00
Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl...
Written by The New Yorker Magazine
Contribution by Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher
Foreword by Anthony Lane
Contribution by Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher
Foreword by Anthony Lane
Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House | Pets - Cats; Pets - Essays; Humor - Topic - Animals
978-0-679-64477-4 (0-679-64477-6)
October 1, 2013 | $46.00
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Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl...
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Russ & Daughters
Hardcover | 224 pages | Schocken | Biography & Autobiography - Culinary; Cooking - Ethnic; History - Jewish
978-0-8052-4294-2 (0-8052-4294-5)
March 5, 2013 | $30.00
Hardcover | 224 pages | Schocken | Biography & Autobiography - Culinary; Cooking - Ethnic; History - Jewish
978-0-8052-4294-2 (0-8052-4294-5)
March 5, 2013 | $30.00
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WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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Russ & Daughters
eBook | 224 pages | Schocken | Biography & Autobiography - Culinary; Cooking - Ethnic; History - Jewish
978-0-8052-4311-6 (0-8052-4311-9)
March 5, 2013 | $15.99
eBook | 224 pages | Schocken | Biography & Autobiography - Culinary; Cooking - Ethnic; History - Jewish
978-0-8052-4311-6 (0-8052-4311-9)
March 5, 2013 | $15.99
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WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Humor - Essays; Humor - Political; Humor
978-0-8129-8221-3 (0-8129-8221-5)
December 4, 2012 | $20.00
Written by Calvin Trillin
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Humor - Essays; Humor - Political; Humor
978-0-8129-8221-3 (0-8129-8221-5)
December 4, 2012 | $20.00
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“Brilliant . . . The dean of American comic writers showcases his varied talents mocking the public and private lives of politicians, average citizens and himself.”—The Star-Ledger
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&rdquo...
Dogfight
Hardcover | 176 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-0-8129-9368-4 (0-8129-9368-3)
November 20, 2012 | $19.00
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 Her Husband Has Cheated On...
Written by Calvin Trillin
Hardcover | 176 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-0-8129-9368-4 (0-8129-9368-3)
November 20, 2012 | $19.00
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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 Her Husband Has Cheated On...
Also available as an
eBook.
Dogfight
eBook | 176 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-0-8129-9369-1 (0-8129-9369-1)
November 20, 2012 | $9.99
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 Her Husband Has Cheated On...
Written by Calvin Trillin
eBook | 176 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-0-8129-9369-1 (0-8129-9369-1)
November 20, 2012 | $9.99
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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 Her Husband Has Cheated On...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
eBook | 368 pages | Random House | Humor - Essays; Humor - Political; Humor
978-0-679-60480-8 (0-679-60480-4)
September 13, 2011 | $13.99
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 the...
Written by Calvin Trillin
eBook | 368 pages | Random House | Humor - Essays; Humor - Political; Humor
978-0-679-60480-8 (0-679-60480-4)
September 13, 2011 | $13.99
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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 the...
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Hardcover | 368 pages | Random House | Humor - Essays; Humor - Political; Humor
978-1-4000-6982-8 (1-4000-6982-3)
September 13, 2011 | $31.00
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 the...
Written by Calvin Trillin
Hardcover | 368 pages | Random House | Humor - Essays; Humor - Political; Humor
978-1-4000-6982-8 (1-4000-6982-3)
September 13, 2011 | $31.00
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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 the...
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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering
Hardcover | 304 pages | Clarkson Potter | Cooking; Cooking - American - California Style; Cooking - Natural Foods
978-0-307-71826-6 (0-307-71826-3)
August 23, 2011 | $62.00
Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her conviction that the best-tasting food is organic, locally grown, and harvested in ecologically sound ways by people who are taking care of the land for future generations. The quest for such ingredients has always...
Hardcover | 304 pages | Clarkson Potter | Cooking; Cooking - American - California Style; Cooking - Natural Foods
978-0-307-71826-6 (0-307-71826-3)
August 23, 2011 | $62.00
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Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her conviction that the best-tasting food is organic, locally grown, and harvested in ecologically sound ways by people who are taking care of the land for future generations. The quest for such ingredients has always...
Alice, Let's Eat
eBook | 192 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Humor - Topic - Family; Cooking - Essays; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-49387-3 (0-307-49387-3)
September 23, 2009 | $11.99
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 appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey...
Written by Calvin Trillin
eBook | 192 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Humor - Topic - Family; Cooking - Essays; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-49387-3 (0-307-49387-3)
September 23, 2009 | $11.99
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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 appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Deciding the Next Decider
eBook | pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-1-58836-872-0 (1-58836-872-6)
November 25, 2008 | $9.99
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.
Deciding the Next Decider...
Written by Calvin Trillin
eBook | pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-1-58836-872-0 (1-58836-872-6)
November 25, 2008 | $9.99
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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.
Deciding the Next Decider...
A Heckuva Job
eBook | 128 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-0-307-43039-7 (0-307-43039-1)
December 18, 2007 | $9.99
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 view, Trillin has said, “We weren’t...
Written by Calvin Trillin
eBook | 128 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor
978-0-307-43039-7 (0-307-43039-1)
December 18, 2007 | $9.99
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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 view, Trillin has said, “We weren’t...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Obliviously On He Sails
eBook | 128 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor - Parodies
978-0-307-43154-7 (0-307-43154-1)
December 18, 2007 | $9.99
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 George Bush’s rescue in the South Carolina...
Written by Calvin Trillin
eBook | 128 pages | Random House | Humor - Political; Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor - Parodies
978-0-307-43154-7 (0-307-43154-1)
December 18, 2007 | $9.99
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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 George Bush’s rescue in the South Carolina...
Also available as a
hardcover.
About Alice
Hardcover | 96 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Family & Relationships - Death, Grief, Bereavement
978-1-4000-6615-5 (1-4000-6615-8)
December 26, 2006 | $19.95
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, “the county would come and...
Written by Calvin Trillin
Hardcover | 96 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Family & Relationships - Death, Grief, Bereavement
978-1-4000-6615-5 (1-4000-6615-8)
December 26, 2006 | $19.95
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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, “the county would come and...
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