Calvin Trillin

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff (2011)

The short essays, and essays may not be the proper word for these pieces, at first frustrated me. I like the humor. But the pieces just seemd to get into the subject matter...then end. I am unaware of the space restraints he had to work with but many left me wanting more. Several were many pages ...

Dogfight The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse (2000)

One can gather from the poems collected here that the 2012 campaign was far more about the Republicans than the Democrats. With the Democratic nominee not in doubt, I guess that makes sense. But that also puts everything that the administration does subject to scrutiny as a campaign issue, and th...

About Alice (2006)