Deciding the next decider
- 116pages
- 5 heures de lecture
Calvin Trillin Livres
Calvin Trillin est un journaliste et auteur américain acclamé, réputé pour son mélange magistral d'humour et de journalisme sérieux. Son œuvre explore souvent des phénomènes culturels et sociétaux, tout en conservant un style distinctif riche en observations et en ironie. Bien que surtout connu pour ses écrits humoristiques sur la nourriture et la gastronomie, la production de Trillin englobe également des reportages approfondis et de la fiction. Sa capacité unique à observer et commenter la vie américaine en fait une voix irremplaçable dans la littérature contemporaine.
Dogfight
- 154pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Presents a humorous ode to the 2012 presidential election that likens the campaign to a three-ring circus and includes riffs on figures ranging from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.
A collection of topical essays deals with matters of the family, educational issues, world affairs, and language in short articles that offer a humorous look at the quirks of society
Tepper Isn't Going Out
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin. Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn’t going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal: the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter. Tepper’s behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. (“Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?”) It also irritates the mayor—Frank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Duce—who sees Murray Tepper as a harbinger of what His Honor always calls “the forces of disorder.” But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don’t know. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out. Tepper Isn’t Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.
