Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. Unsourced I never did very well in math - I could never persuade my teachers that many of my answers were meant to be ironic. Anybody caught...
Calvin Trillin is an important literary journalist whose most acclaimed work to date is Remembering Denny (1993), his rumination on the meaning of the life of a classmate at Yale who appeared destined for great things but whose life ended in suicide in...
Calvin Trillin, journalist and storyteller of the American scene, has introduced his readers to friends in unlikely places like Horse Cave, Kentucky, exposed several small-town scandals, and revealed a great many of his own idiosyncrasies along the...
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic...
IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE, by Calvin Trillin. Ticknor and Fields. 257 pp. $16.95. I hate to come off sounding like one of those inside guys who knew it all along, but the truth is that I did. I was having lunch...
This is another in a series of occasional articles on travelers who have made interesting or unusual journeys. Readers who would like to nominate someone for inclusion in the series should write to Travelers, Sunday Travel Section, Boston Globe, Boston,...
In summer, New York can feel like hell: too hot, crowded with grumps, oppressive. But our city does hide some secret oases, public green spaces that are like secret gardens, secluded and intimate. Take the shady lawn at the Cooper Hewitt, with its immaculate perennial...
For more than 40 years, the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux has been the tweedy, stubborn holdout on Union Square. Even if everything around it is changing (the Amalgamated Bank building turning condo, the new glass tower going up at the corner of 14th and...
