Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 December 1935
CountryUnited States of America
school high-school
Everybody is who he was in high school.
basketball sports texas
Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.
father grocers given
It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
people three trouble
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
loss medicine weight
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
luxury income should
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
fun california america
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
texas enough chili
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
mean unions slave
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
years eight meals
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
father thinking yale
Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
drinking ambition neckties
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
writing inappropriate ifs
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
talent parking parallels
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.