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
long care feds
I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.
weed long people
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
california islands long
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.
cities kansas-city long
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
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.