American Stories
by Calvin Trillin
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"Funny, troubling, moving, and always revealing, AMERICAN STORIES evinces not only an extraordinary instinct for fact and detail but also the narrative command that has won Trillin praise as 'perhaps the finest reporter in America.'" -- page 2 of cover.Tags
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American Stories represents a collection of Trillin stories published in The New Yorker during the 80s. Trillin touches on a disparate group of situations and people - with equal clarity and understanding for each. Some stories are deadly serious, while others offer descriptions of some eccentirc and talented Americans. All allow ample opportunity to reflect and learn, while simultaneously experieincing non-fiction writing at its finest. How I wish other writers were as gifted as Trillin - he is a great storyteller. This is my second Trillin book and I look forward to picking up others. Highly recommended.
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Calvin Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University and graduated in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. He was born on December 5, 1935. He worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the show more University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. Family, travel and food are also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings; were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. He has also written a collection of short stories Barnett Frummer Is An Unbloomed Flower (1969) and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). Among his recent work, is Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, in 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- To Robert (Slowly) Lescher
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