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  • Killings

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    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 expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lede

    Dispatches from a Life in the Press

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin“The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us.”—Dwight Garner, The New York ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Alice, Let's Eat

    Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    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 magazineIn this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jackson, 1964

    And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    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 presentIn the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Studs Terkel Reader

    My American Century

    by Studs Terkel, Calvin Trillin ...
    "An informal epic of Terkel's near century [with a] cinematic vividness that tells you more than a shelf of standard history books." — Entertainment WeeklyWith a foreword by Robert Coles and a preface by Calvin TrillinThe Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his wonderful original introductions to each ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • About Alice

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    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 to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.” Now, five ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

    Forty Years of Funny Stuff

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    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 column USA Today called “simply the funniest regular column in journalism.”Now Trillin selects the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trillin on Texas

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    Series series Bridwell Texas History Series
    Articles and comic verse about the Lone Star State from the Thurber Prize winner: " What's not to love?" — Texas MonthlyWhether reporting for the New Yorker, penning comic verse and political commentary, or writing his memoirs, Calvin Trillin has bumped into Texas again and again. He insists it's not by design—"there has simply been a lot going on in Texas." Astute readers will note, however, that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tepper Isn't Going Out

    A Novel

    by 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 surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out.Tepper isn’t going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Russ & Daughters

    Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

    by Mark Russ Federman ...
    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 herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times Magazine).When Joel Russ started peddling herring from a barrel ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

    by The New Yorker Magazine, Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin, M.F.K. Fisher ...
    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, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Graves, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • An Education in Georgia

    Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    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 admission of Holmes and Hunter and covered their first week at the university—a week that began in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD