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Quotes2RemindU: With humor its so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. -Calvin Trillin

sandramwan35011: If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?,Calvin Trillin,school,

RBellikoff: Speaker McCarthy's Largesse by Calvin Trillin in The Nation He let Marjorie Taylor Greene with the gavel preside He gave Carlson the tapes of the riotous day All the wackos are on the committees they craved One must wonder what else he might now give away

ColemanRidge: I think often of Calvin Trillin's daughter's synoptic description of previously unencountered foods: "guts and throw-up." Yes, baby. It's all guts and throw-up, and good too.

meetka: i wonder what calvin trillin is doing

heathr: People used to ferret out and write up especially good things and services they’d found and why. Calvin Trillin used to get paid some nominal amount for writing it up for a little magazine. Then more people did it on blogs for no payment at all. 3/

estherschindler: My Amazon review of Jackson, 1964 by Calvin Trillin It's a really good snapshot of where we have been and where we need to go. Recommended, especially for my writer and journalist friends.

estherschindler: My Amazon review of Jackson, 1964 and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America by Calvin Trillin

richd77: "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." -- Calvin Trillin

ABDOMiftah162: I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.,Calvin Trillin,Stand, Feet, Restaurant ,

4ralphgailonly: The original meal has never been found. – Calvin Trillin RALPHGAIL ASAPaKENsiAYUMI

gfrancie: Watching this Silicon Valley Bank collapse, I think back to a brilliant piece by Calvin Trillin. It is all you need to know.

RBellikoff: Mike Pence Resists Grand Jury Subpoena by Calvin Trillin in The Nation Pence guards his White House prospects, hence He's planned resistance that's intense He wouldn't want to give offense To MAGA types. That makes no sense

DarrylK73314235: There's always a source for humor.,Calvin Trillin,Always, Source ,

Versinda4943: If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?,Calvin Trillin,school,

TrueQuotation: When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. — Calvin Trillin

MWANAMISIJUMA13: There's always a source for humor.,Calvin Trillin,Always, Source ,

BMaTexasAppeals: "A gourmet who lives in Columbus, like a concert pianist who lives in Cheyenne cannot be afraid to travel."- Calvin Trillin

melnickjeffrey1: Grateful, as always, this Sunday morning, to Calvin Trillin's daughter, for reminding us that not all "round bread" has the right to call itself a bagel.

RBellikoff: Leadership, Kevin McCarthy-Style by Calvin Trillin in The Nation He bowed to the whackos' demands. He'd needed their votes. Those were vital. To winning the office he craved. Now all he has left is the title.

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kellygirtz: It will be 60 years this spring since Hunter and Holmes graduated from UGA, following massive resistance from the governor to members of the Board of Regents to state legislators. This Calvin Trillin piece from 1963 is essential reading.

jepaco: The last time we stayed at the Hermitage in Nevis, Calvin Trillin was there, and we talked with him a few times. Here’s a piece of his from a few years ago about Larry Kramer. Fifty Years of Friendship with Larry Kramer

adelia0vfp: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff CQ2CDBH

soklibrarysys: Johnston County Library will continue with the Let’s Talk About It series featuring “Much Depends on Dinner” with “The Tummy Trilogy” by Calvin Trillin on Thursday, February 16th at 6:30 PM. For more information, call (580) 889-3555.

english_sougo: "Health food makes me sick."　Calvin Trillin (1935-)

daschloz: Although the sauce is a little vinegary, Calvin Trillin was correct that Kansas City International Airport should be renamed for Arthur Bryant.

nytimes: Instead of turkey, the writer Calvin Trillin has suggested that Americans gather around the Thanksgiving table for an unlikely substitute: pasta carbonara. If you’re going to give it a try, remember that the main goal is creaminess.

readDanwrite: Calvin Trillin in the intro this nails the diff expectations diff journos have about output. he says he spent 15 years filing one 3,000-word piece per month. magazine writers would ask him "How do you keep up that pace?" Newspaper reporters would ask "And what else do you do?"

goodymas: The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin

welfordwrites: For thirty years my mother served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin

soklibrarysys: Johnston County Library will continue with the Let’s Talk About It series featuring “Much Depends on Dinner” with “The Tummy Trilogy” by Calvin Trillin on Thursday, February 16th at 6:30 PM. For more information, call (580) 889-3555.

RonBrownstein: My favorite tribute to the great Victor Navasky ever came from (the also great) Calvin Trillin, who once wrote that Navasky paid in the high two figures. What a life. Big ideas, big impact, big laugh. RIP

RolfRothuizen: "If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?" Calvin Trillin

thenation: Calvin Trillin asks why he and so many other writers, fully aware of the pay scale, wrote for Victor Navasky? The overriding answer, Trillin writes, is pretty simple: "We liked him."

ChrisCrandall19: RIP “the wily and parsimonious” Victor Navasky, Editor of The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and best of all, part of the group that created “Report from Iron Mountain.” Turned Calvin Trillin into a “highly paid” poet.

AkurathGB: NIMRIT DESERVES TROPHY Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin..

DPQuoteOfTheDay: 2023-01-28 08:00:03 The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin

RBellikoff: Why Americans Binge on Prince Harry vs. the Royals by Calvin Trillin in The Nation The world is full of serious strife What peace there is could shatter It's nice to follow one dispute That really doesn't matter

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GregoryHansell: “The price of purity is purists.” - Calvin Trillin

michelet: Thanks to early exposure to collections of Calvin Trillin's columns for the Nation, I can only ever think of him as "the wily and parsimonious Victor S. Navasky."

sullivanms: MUST Read! "Calvin Trillin, writing for this magazine, noted the irony: the poor had intended to show America that they were 'sick, dirty, disorganized, & powerless—and they are criticized daily for being sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless.'”

DPCassidyTKC: The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -Calvin Trillin

AukatMeRehNa: As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. - Calvin Trillin MUNAWAR BDAY WEEK BEGINS

RBellikoff: George Santos by Calvin Trillin in The Nation George Santos invented an alternate life. With chutzpah we've seen only rarely. Mendacity in all his statements was rife. He beat Trump in lying, though barely.

MBudha: “I sometimes wake up at three or four in the morning, disturbed by dark thoughts, and when that happens I try my best to think of the surprising amount of shrimp consumed in Las Vegas every day,” Calvin Trillin writes. Read Trillin’s full essay, from 2017:

Kaleb_M_Carter: Finished The Afghanistan Papers. Now starting “Jackson, 1964” by Calvin Trillin

RBellikoff: Exit Trump? by Calvin Trillin in The Nation Some Washington types say that Trump's here for good; He'll handle those setbacks just fine. But some say they're certain that soon he may go, And not with a bang but a whine.

Crimealytics: “The discrimination against Jews by Carnival krewes and businessmen’s clubs is specific and total, and people even seem to take a certain pride in how specific and total it is" - Calvin Trillin, 1968

chrispj53: “As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.” ~Calvin Trillin

priyankit5654: The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —Calvin Trillin JANTA KI JAAN PRIYANKA

birgee: "As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler." -- Calvin Trillin

Federico17zY: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff AGFYMPF

Quotes2RemindU: We all know funny people who cant get it down on the page - even funny writers who cant get it down on the page. -Calvin Trillin

mclaughlinegp: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff ZEV9UDI

english_sougo: "Health food makes me sick."　Calvin Trillin (1935-)

sherls: THE FUNNIEST PODCAST MOMENTS OF THE YEAR: 4 - You're going to want to hear this brilliant story as Calvin Trillin tells of the time he played tic-tac-toe with a chicken.

jspotila: ABOUT ALICE by Calvin Trillin, an intimate portrait of his funny, brilliant, practical, charming late wife. 5/14

ferrylvgm: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff USXOJPF

randylewiskemp: "As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."-- Calvin Trillin

JimCanOps: Depends on my mood. Still remember Calvin Trillin's story of finding out the bagel shop he and his family had been going to for years hear Houston St didn't sell real bagels.They weren't boiled. My choice regardless is neither. Italian pastry tart from Emporio Rulli in Larkspur.

hangingnoodles: Crucial (climate) diagnosis from Calvin Trillin "eaten away at our [elite's] sense of enoughness" there exist zero paths to climate safety that keep elite bauble buying at today's levels "mitigation denial"

hangingnoodles: Crucial (climate) diagnosis from Calvin Trillin "eaten away at our [elite's] sense of enoughness" there exist zero paths to climate safety that keep elite bauble buying at today's levels "mitigation denial"

brooke86tp: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff Z9QLXWK

SarcasmLiving: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses." — Calvin Trillin

Alirosa: Special guest: the great Calvin Trillin!

Matt35V: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff RKYAKLJ

KungFuShoesSays: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses." Calvin Trillin

jonathanalter: Amid all of tonight's news, take a break with Calvin Trillin.

MansouriNegar: Calvin Trillin on Critical Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School and the professional and ideological wars between the majority right-wing faculty members and the likes of Kennedy and Unger (March 1984)

NikParker10: 5 of 5 stars to About Alice by Calvin Trillin

maskaggs: Among the best culinary advice I've ever read was Calvin Trillin's urging his readers to always order the crispy beef at Chinese restaurants, even if not on the menu. Having polished off yet another, I still maintain he's right.

VishweshMasurk: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses." -Calvin Trillin

AncientWisdomHQ: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses." - Calvin Trillin

boehmcmv: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff MQQNXMJ

Thouotes: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses." — Calvin Trillin

HerliLie: quote of the day quotes of the day Calvin Trillin: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is…

GM036: I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. - Calvin Trillin

evil_spectre: Calvin Trillin: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses."

jjrwass: In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses. Calvin Trillin US columnist (1935 - )

jonathanalter: The man is 87 and still in fine form. Please subscribe, free or paid.

goodymas: Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucine restaurant in the first place. -- Calvin Trillin

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nprscottsimon: A wonderful funny, blunt, and funny all over again interview:

5dogs2catsBrown: A really good interview

RonRosenbaum1: Btw I apologize for my use of "flyover" in a previous post about Calvin Trillin.Itwas meant to be a lighthearted Acela corridor self own. In fact I loved doing reporting roadtrips in theMidwest&the mountain states in particular, essential to any sense of the vastness of America.

jonathanalter: If you've ever liked an article or book by the great Calvin Trillin (and who hasn't?), you won't want to miss this amusing Q and A.

kitson: Does anyone ever NOT love listening to Calvin Trillin? I adore him.

modemjunkie: Ruminating with Calvin Trillin

matthewkassel: “My father was a grocer for most of his working life but he had a restaurant for a while. And he put rhyming couplets on the menu every lunchtime. He wrote mainly about pie.”

RBellikoff: Winners by Calvin Trillin in The Nation Among the people Trump will not denounce, Who's leading now for statements that appall us? The race remains quite close, but in the lead It's Ye and his pal Fuentes über alles.

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welfordwrites: For thirty years my mother served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin

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pfanderson: About Alice: Calvin Trillin on True Love and Being a Good Man

RBellikoff: The Agenda of House Republicans by Calvin Trillin in The Nation We said when we ran that we'd make this place great. We'll honor that pledge, but right out of the gate. Inflation, the border, will just have to wait. We need to nab Hunter before it's too late.

SarcasmLiving: The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —Calvin Trillin

JoeLackey_: "As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler." - Calvin Trillin

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