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
monday writing sunday
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
african buried hardest john obviously people somebody time
It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to do it more by herself. Somebody told me there's an African blessing, 'May we be buried by our children.' It's obviously the hardest loss.
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.
long care feds
I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.
color dry natural
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
school law hard
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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.