Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin (About Alice, A Heckuva job, Alice, let's eat, Deciding the Next Decider, Feeding a yen, Obliviously on he sails, Tepper Isn't Going Out, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, Russ & Daughters, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, Dogfight)

Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva job, Obliviously on he sails, and About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York. To schedule a speaking engagement, please contact American Program Bureau at www.apbspeakers.com (added from Random House)… (more)

Calvin Trillin (About Alice, A Heckuva job, Alice, let's eat, Deciding the Next Decider, Feeding a yen, Obliviously on he sails, Tepper Isn't Going Out, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, Russ & Daughters, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, Dogfight)

Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva job, Obliviously on he sails, and About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York. To schedule a speaking engagement, please contact American Program Bureau at www.apbspeakers.com (added from Random House)… (more)

Calvin Trillin (About Alice, A Heckuva job, Alice, let's eat, Deciding the Next Decider, Feeding a yen, Obliviously on he sails, Tepper Isn't Going Out, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, Russ & Daughters, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, Dogfight)

Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva job, Obliviously on he sails, and About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York. To schedule a speaking engagement, please contact American Program Bureau at www.apbspeakers.com (added from Random House)… (more)

Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Well-timed is this evening's visit by Calvin Trillin. Long one of the most insightful, often droll journalistic commentators on things cultural, political, and culinary, with numerous bestselling books to his credit, he has also become known as a 'verse columnist' or 'deadline poet' at The Nation. There matters are very succinctly laid out. Tonight these are given form in Calvin Trillin's newest book, Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse (Random House). This follows a delightful compendium of writing from a more extended period, newly in paperback, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff (Random House). Funny stuff, indeed. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., or in advance via www.strangertickets.com. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see
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Location: Street: Town Hall Seattle Additional: 1119 Eighth Avenue City: Seattle, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Calvin Trillin (About Alice, A Heckuva job, Alice, let's eat, Deciding the Next Decider, Feeding a yen, Obliviously on he sails, Tepper Isn't Going Out, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, Russ & Daughters, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, Dogfight)

Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva job, Obliviously on he sails, and About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York. To schedule a speaking engagement, please contact American Program Bureau at www.apbspeakers.com (added from Random House)… (more)

Calvin Trillin (About Alice, A Heckuva job, Alice, let's eat, Deciding the Next Decider, Feeding a yen, Obliviously on he sails, Tepper Isn't Going Out, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, Russ & Daughters, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, Dogfight)

Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva job, Obliviously on he sails, and About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York. To schedule a speaking engagement, please contact American Program Bureau at www.apbspeakers.com (added from Random House)… (more)

Venturing north from New York City to commit a blatant act of funniness in the Northwest Corner before the official start of our long, dark winter, acclaimed author and humorist Calvin Trillin will describe “The Life of a Deadline Poet” at what is expected to be a sell-out event to benefit The Cornwall Library.

Mr. Trillin is well known as a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and as The Nation’s “deadline poet,” but in person he is equally droll. In reviewing a one-act show written and performed by Mr. Trillin, a New York Times theater critic called him "the Buster Keaton of performance humorists." In October Mr. Trillin was awarded the 2012 Thurber Prize for American Humor for this collection. Could any award be more fitting than one named after the late Cornwall resident and great humorist James Thurber?

Saturday,December 1, 5:00 p.m. - Cornwall Village Meeting House, 8 Bolton Hill Road

Reception to follow at the Cornwall Library, 395 Hudson Street, a short walk from the Meeting House.

General seating tickets are $30 each.

Reserved seating is $100 per ticket.

Tickets may be purchased at the Library, which accepts cash, checks and credit cards.

Copies of Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of His Funny Stuff will be available for purchase and signing at the reception.

Run, don’t walk to the Library to get your tickets. All proceeds will benefit the Library.

Location: Street: Cornwall Village Meeting House, 8 Bolton Hill Road City: Cornwall, Province: New York Postal Code: 12518 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Calvin Trillin reads from Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme.

Special midday at Elliott Bay reading. We are totally delighted to welcome back Calvin Trillin, long one of this country's most acclaimed and beloved journalists and versifiers. He is here at noon, 13 days along in the new Obama administration with his most recent poetic accounting of the historic 2008 campaign, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme (Random House). We won't go anywhere near what Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times did in a lavish verse review, paying tribute to what Calvin Trillin has done, week-in and week-out, over the years, with many of these telling (usually humorous) poems appearing in a "Deadline Poet" column in The Nation. Two popular previous volumes precede this, A Heckuva Job and Obliviously On He Sails. The author of twenty-five other books, Calvin Trillin in visiting here today will be here for the first time since his lovely, moving memoir of life with his late wife, Alice, About Alice. A great opportunity for a lunchtime stimulus package. Attendees interested in lunch are invited to pre-order through our café: Box Lunch option: Choice of Roast Beef Sandwich, St. Jude's Albacore Tuna Sandwich OR Classic Egg Salad Sandwich served with chips and cookie, $10 including tax. Call (206) 682-6664 for more information or to preorder this (and other items available on The Elliott Bay Cafe's menu) for pick up at the reading. Please join us. (KingRat)… (more)