Calvin Trillin

The writer and satirist reads selections on "Stories, Politics, Poetry and Food", a PEN/Faulkner event. Reception aan book signing to follow. Tickets are $15. RSVP to www.penfaulkner.org or 202-544-7077.

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 ... (more)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.