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
life book average
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
book average yogurt
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
book average stories
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
crown handed peter
Ross begat Shawn. He handed down the crown of St Peter to Shawn.
bush
Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme.
chicken following garlic jewish kept table vampires
Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
best kansas
The best restaurants in the world are, of course, in Kansas City.
numbers looks queues
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
teacher math answers
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
dark may sides
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
football sex school
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?
sound ears deceiving
Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?
colonialism sandwiches argument
The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
crazy thinking trying
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.