Quite enough of Calvin Trillin forty years of funny stuff
"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.
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New York :
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2012 Random House Trade Paperback ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Biographically speaking
- The Media : liberal elite and otherwise
- Tales of a clean-plate ranger
- High society and just plain rich people
- Criminal justice, criminals, justices, but (probably) no criminal justices
- Life among the literati
- Madly making money
- The years with Navasky
- Twenty years of pols : one poem each
- NYC
- Family matters
- Beasts of the field, fish of the sea, and chiggers in the tall grass
- English and some languages I don't speak
- Bagels, Yiddish, and other Jewish contributions to Western civilization
- The sporting life
- Science, technology, and the healing arts
- Foreigners
- Issues and other irritations
- Seeing the world
- National holidays.
