61. Calvin Trillin - Letter From Berkeley - March 1965 - From The New Yorker LETTER FROM BERKELEY. By calvin trillin. Published originally in The New Yorker,March 13, 1965. March 3, 1965. Copyright © 1965, 1998 by calvin trillin. http://www.fsm-a.org/stacks/trillin.html

Search this Site FSM-A Home Page LETTER FROM BERKELEY By Calvin Trillin Published originally in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965 March 3, 1965 ONE A student stopped at the Slate table and, indicating a sign that asked for contributions to the bail fund for the Ad Hoc Committee demonstrators, asked the Slate representative, "Did you hear about the DuBois Club pulling out of the Ad Hoc Committee?" "That's not what happened at all," the Slate representative replied. "The Ad Hoc Committee broke up. They're having a press conference at one o'clock, and Mike Myerson's going to explain it." "Do you expect me to believe any thing in the press?" the student asked. "It's their press conference," said the Slate man. "Mike Myerson is the president of the Ad Hoc Committee." "That doesn't make any difference," said the student, and wandered off. "No, no, no! " the young man exclaimed. "The thing to do now is to picket the grocery stores. Then we sit in at the factories." "Does this money go for political activity ? " a prospective customer asked while I was standing at Rosenfeld's table.

62. Calvin Trillin Reads On WSUI’s ‘Live From Prairie Lights’ Series email winston-barclay@uiowa.edu. Release Jan. 10, 2003. CALVINTRILLIN READS ON WSUI’S ‘LIVE FROM PRAIRIE LIGHTS’ SERIES. http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0110trillin.html

CONTACT: WINSTON BARCLAY 300 Plaza Centre One Iowa City IA 52242 (319) 384-0073; fax (319) 384-0024 e-mail: winston-barclay@uiowa.edu Release: Jan. 10, 2003 The opening week will present: a joint reading by fiction writers Elizabeth Crane and Robert Mailer Anderson at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24. Trillin has contributed to publications including The New Yorker, The Nation, USA Today and Time magazine for more than 30 years, and has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" and “a classic American humorist.” He is the author of more than 20 books, including collections of his short pieces, novels, history, food books and a memoir. Crane's stories have appeared in the Sycamore Review, Washington Square, Weep Daily, New York Stories, Book, the Florida Review and Eclipse. www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa ur-acr@uiowa.edu home releases ... about

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Piece by Piece Calvin Trillin Read by the author Calvin Trillin, who has something witty and insightful to say about any topic, has distinguished himself in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. For thirty years, he has reported on the American scene for The New Yorker . His memoir of the fifties, Remembering Denny , was a New York Times bestseller. But he is perhaps best known for his humorin his syndicated newspaper column, in the "Shouts and Murmurs" section of The New Yorker , in his antic adventures as a "happy cater," in the weekly appearances with Johnny Carson and David Letterman. This original recordinghis firstfeatures Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Wonderfully funny and full of surprises, this is a thoroughly satisfying, eminently entertaining, and beautifully crafted collection. Unabridged selections; 3 hours on 2 audiocassettes ISBN 1-56511-142-7 Calvin Trillin Piece by Piece cassette Questions? Comments? Contact us at highbridge@highbridgeaudio.com

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66. CALVIN TRILLIN: FAMILY MAN calvin Tillin unlocks family secrets. By HEATHER MALLICK Toronto Sun FAMILY MANcalvin trillin (Farrar Straus Giroux) What's the secret of happy family life? http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsF/family_trillin.html

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70. Did Bullies Torment Richard Perle? - Calvin Trillin's Joke Springs To Life. By T calvin trillin writes political doggerel every week for The Nation. On Sept. DidBullies Torment Richard Perle? calvin trillin's joke springs to life. http://slate.msn.com/id/2074452/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money document.write('') Search the Web: powered by MSN Search Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search chatterbox Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics. Did Bullies Torment Richard Perle? Calvin Trillin's joke springs to life. By Timothy Noah Updated Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 3:10 PM PT Calvin Trillin writes political doggerel every week for The Nation . On Sept. 16, he published a poem titled " Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? " The satirical conceit was that schoolyard bullies who pushed Perle around as a child "have got a lot to answer for,/ 'Cause Richard Perle now wants to start a war." (Perle, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security during the Reagan administration, now chairs the Defense Policy Board , which advises the Pentagon, and is America's leading Iraq hawk.) Imagining the childhood slights suffered by famous political figures is nothing new for Trillin. Years ago he wrote a hilarious Nation column purporting to excerpt Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s childhood diary: Today I asked those cool Kennedy boys again if I could play in their touch football game on the quad and they said again that I was a wonk and a weenie and a wimp and a grind and walked like a duck. I told them that someday I would be a famous historian and if they ever let me play with them then I would write whatever they wanted. …

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75. Interviews - Calvin Trillin The author of 19 books ranging from serious journalism to comic novels trillin has been a staff writer for the NEW YORKER for 35 years. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/series/interview/trillin.html

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Whitewell Bottom Review Contents: Back to Book Page 2. Films.................. 3. Videos............... 4. TV Shows......... 5. Everything else... Back to Front Page Remembering Denny, by Calvin Trillin 'Remembering Denny' is part memoir, part investigative report, part elegy, and part meditation on what success means, or used to. The prism for all these is Denny Hansen, an all-American Rhodes scholar and classmate of Trillin's, whose graduation from Yale in the 1950s was featured in the old Life magazine. Denny did not live up to his promise, and committed suicide at 45. Trillin records his own efforts to piece together where the road led, and why. The book is not so much about Denny (indeed Trillin concedes the impossibility of knowing him), as about the fortunes of the ideal Denny seemed to embody. Trillin's book has all the hallmark virtues of New Yorker-style writing: lucid, organized, nothing too flashy but obviously quality. Seams neatly pressed, it's the prose equivalent of a fresh new Brooks Brother shirt. It's prose you can breath in, all right, and the perfect voice in which to explore from within the 1950s cult of Ivy league and (white) manhood. That was also the aspect that underlined my own distance from the subject: the description of the rituals of and snobberies of Yale fraternities, for instance, were to me as foreign as a disquisition upon the bathing rituals of 12th century Tibet. URL: http://www.recordeddelivery.demon.co.uk/index.html

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