About alice, lets eat trillin is our funniest food writer. Calvin trillin, a contributor to the new yorker since 1963, is the author. In calvins writing, alice was sometimes his subject and always his muse. Cornhusker french restaurants with purple interiors, sigma chi sommeliers, and flaccid canned vegetables. Jan 14, 2007 the secret of calvin trillins slim but walloping book, about alice, is that its structure follows the contours of an oldfashioned piece of reportage, using a scrim of detachment to build. Alice trillin is a recurring subject in calvin trillins writings, including his 2006 book titled about alice. Trillin has written considerably more pieces than any other person for the nation. He is the author of deciding the next decider, a heckuva job, obliviously on he sails, and about alice.
In calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for. Calvin trillin on his marriage and his new play about alice the cut. She was also known for her work with cancer patients. Alice violated her own rule by being inordinately pretty, a gratuitous advantage she didnt mind possessing. This edition contains an excerpt from calvin trillins quite enough of calvin trillin. This delightful book collects calvin trillins accounts of his trips to europe with his wife, alice, and their two daughters. After his wifes death, the author received many touching notes of condolences from friends and readers alike. The secret of calvin trillins slim but walloping book, about alice, is that its structure follows the contours of an oldfashioned piece of reportage, using a scrim of detachment to build. Tweedies 1904 assertion that the beautiful town is being spoilt, and skip the grand tour in favor of swimming holes, table soccer, and taureaux piscine. Calvin trillin remembers 911 differently from the rest of us. In taormina, sicily, they cheerfully disagree with mrs. Alice stewart trillin may 8, 1938 september 11, 2001 was an american educator, author, film producer and longtime muse to her husband, author calvin trillin.
In calvin s writing, alice was sometimes his subject and always his muse. Alice, let eat amply demonstrates why the new republic called calvin trillin a classic american humorist. In calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didnt go to every performance of your childs school play, the county would come and take the child. I had never read anything that this famous new yorker author had written so i was unfamiliar with this woman who is such an important character in some of. January 2, 2007 for readers of author calvin trillins work in the new yorker, and books like alice lets eat, his late wife alice is a. Calvin trillin remembers 911 differently from the rest of. It was a very slim 78 pages tribute to calvin trillins wife alice.
About alice 9781400066155 by trillin, calvin and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, i wrote this for alice. Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of alice. Feb 26, 2007 about alice by calvin trillin, 9781400066155, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In that spirit, calvin trillin has, with about alice, created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers. I truly enjoyed this book, written by a provocative author whose writing has influenced many of us. This delightful book collects calvin trillin s accounts of his trips to europe with his wife, alice, and their two daughters. Writing with deep affection that readers will easily connect to, the author demonstrates through action and his writing the unlimitedness of love and the human spirit. Calvin trillin, a contributor to the new yorker since 1963, is the author of. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language. He covered the schoolintegration movement in georgia, and wrote a long running new yorker column about america, including a lot about what he was eating in america.
Alice trillin starred in many of calvin s essays about food and family, but this book reveals much about her personal and professional background i didnt know, and provides a fuller portrait of her intelligent, thoughtful character. Calvin trillin has 57 books on goodreads with 40569 ratings. Calvin marshall trillin born 5 december 1935 is an american journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. In calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didnt go to every performance of your childs school play, the county. In his book, messages from my father, he said his parents called him buddy.
I did enjoy reading about alice though, and think i would have liked to know her. From 1986 through 1995, the column was syndicated to newspapers. Enjoy the best calvin trillin quotes at brainyquote. In calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as t.
She was a busy college teacher, tv producer, cancer survivor, friend and more. The cardiac arrest that claimed her was the result of damage from radiation that successfully treated her lung cancer twenty five years earlier. As he would write in the dedication to that book, nearly everything he composed was written with one reader in mind. In that 2011 memoir, an expansion of an earlier new yorker article, the journalist calvin trillin conjures a great love. Sep 09, 2011 calvin trillins beloved wife alice died on sept. I wanted the book to be about her life rather than her death, said trillin. He and his wife, alice, did not celebrate valentines day. About alice book the seattle public library bibliocommons. The 2008 presidential election in rhyme, is the nation s deadline poet. Calvin trillin on his marriage and his new play about alice. For almost six decades, calvin trillin has been a journalist, writing for the new yorker, the nation, and early on, at the shortlived magazine monocle.
This book was just reissued in conjunction with trillin s remembrance of alice called about alice. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read about alice. Dec 26, 2006 about alice ebook written by calvin trillin. Quotations by calvin trillin, american journalist, born december 5, 1935. New york magazine writer calvin trillin loves his wife, alice, in genuine ways, not in the gushy, over simplified expressions of a hallmark card. Calvin trillin, who became the nations deadline poet in 1990, has been a staff writer at the new yorker since 1963. About alice by calvin trillin is a touching memoir about the authors wife, alice. Family, travel and food are also themes in trillins work. Trillin is the sort of food lover who flees from soulless imitationscornhusker french restaurants with purple interiors, sigma chi sommeliers, and flaccid canned vegetables.
About alice in calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didnt go to every performance of your childs school play, the county would come and take the child. The alice in question in the memoir, about alice is alice trillin, wife and muse of calvin trillin, the author of this book. He has also written verse on the events of the day for the new yorker, the new york times, and national public radio. In calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird. Charleston post and courier read trillin and laugh out loud. This book was just reissued in conjunction with trillins remembrance of alice called about alice. In that 2011 memoir, an expansion of an earlier new yorker article, the journalist calvin trillin conjures a great love story.
A graduate of wellesley and yale, she was a writer and educator who. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It was not something done by people of our vintage, says trillin, 71, cradling a gin martini in a. I thought it was a sweet book and a wonderful tribute to alice. Trillin originally wrote this memoir of his wife alice as a new yorker piece five years after her untimely death in 2001, and later expanded it into this short book. Mark singer interviews calvin trillin about his new book, about alice, a tribute to his wife and longtime muse, who died of cancer in 2001. In calvin trillins antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didnt go to every performance of your childs school play, the county would come. He attended public schools in kansas city and went on to. Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving.
About alice in calvin trillin s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didnt go to every performance of your childs school play, the county would come and take the child. Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of alice trillin off the pagehis. New york magazine in this delightful and delicious book, calvin trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of something decent to eat. Jan 20, 2019 on the other hand, a slim book like about alice can be devastating. Memoir of a marriage calvin trillins new book, about. Jan 01, 2006 the alice in question in the memoir, about alice is alice trillin, wife and muse of calvin trillin, the author of this book. I had never read anything that this famous new yorker author had written so i was unfamiliar with this woman who is such an important character in some of his other books about his family life. In his writing, she was sometimes his subject and always his muse.
When i wrote in the dedication of a book for alice, i meant it literally. In that spirit, calvin trillin has, with about alice, created a gift for the wife he adored and for his listeners. Calvin trillin may want to sound exasperated when he talks about his travels with his wife alice and his daughters. But i like my books to have more substance to them, so regretfully, i would rate it a bit lower then usual. More of the bush administration in rhyme, a staff writer with the new yorker since 1963, has often w. About alice chronicles their years of marriage and exposes a husbands heart of adoration with humor and surrender to the gentle battle of the sexes that prevails. Since 1990, trillin has written a piece of comic verse weekly for the nation. The secret of calvin trillins slim but walloping book, about alice, is that its structure follows the contours of an oldfashioned piece of. Putting down calvin trillin s about alice one word came to mind. She was nice and she was concerned and she was smart and when she talked to you, she was thinking about you, and, also, she was so very pretty, he wrote in september of 2001, a few days after alice died. About alice by calvin trillin, 9781400066155, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Trillin answers these notes with this poignant look at the woman with whom he shared nearly forty years of his life. Calvin trillin was born in kansas city, missouri in 1935 to edythe and abe trillin.