Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 December 1935
CountryUnited States of America
vampire excess garlic
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
california islands long
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.
people pages funny-people
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
book average stories
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
hands my-family clean
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
travel home islands
How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
book thinking three
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
home next-day stories
Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.
book thinking pieces
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
mind television radio
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
people three trouble
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
father taken italian
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.
home missing kind
Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.
fun california america
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.