Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin appears in the following:

A Journalism History Lesson from Calvin Trillin

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963.

'About Alice,' Monthly Dose of Poetry, Paweł Pawlikowski

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Calvin Trillin on “About Alice.” TC Tolbert on poetry. Paweł Pawlikowski on "Cold War."

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Calvin Trillin Reports on 50 Years of Civil Rights

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Calvin Trillin has spent 50 years reporting on race in the U.S. and talks about his new anthology of articles. 

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Come Hungry: Calvin Trillin's Eating Tour of Lower Manhattan

Friday, October 03, 2014

The New Yorker writer tells us about his annual walking tour through the West Village, Soho, Little Italy and Chinatown, which includes stops at favorite eateries.

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Calvin Trillin Sings the Praises of Mozzarella and Hot Tamales

Thursday, January 09, 2014

New Yorker contributor Calvin Trillin describes his visits to the Hot Tamale Capital of the World—Greenville, Mississippi—and talks about the closing of his beloved Joe’s Dairy store on Sullivan Street in New York. He’s the author of "Mozzarella Story: A Cheese Ritual" in the December 2 issue of The New Yorker, and "Tamales on the Delta" in the January 6 issue.

 

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Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Calvin Trillin, New Yorker staff writer and The Nation’s deadline poet, talks about his latest book of collected works, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. He cover topics from the literary life to the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers.

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Humorist Calvin Trillin on Food

Saturday, May 05, 2001

Kurt Andersen talks with humorist Calvin Trillin about his Tummy Trilogy

Trillin has been a staff writer for The New Yorker for nearly thirty years. He is the author of 19 books, including the best-selling Remembering Denny and three books chronicling his eating adventures — American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat, ...

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Food, Protest, Cowboy Boots

Saturday, May 05, 2001

Kurt talks with humorist Calvin Trillin about his Tummy Trilogy.

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