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April 20, 2011 10:14 AM
Q&A: Calvin Trillin
“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”
Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin published his twenty-seventh book, a collection of nonfiction pieces about Texas and Texans titled, appropriately, Trillin on Texas. Trillin grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and lives in Greenwich Village, but having spent fifteen years reporting...
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May 7, 2012 11:53 AM
Thank you, Mr. Trillin …
for bringing some wit to the otherwise witless NYT Magazine's ethics-of-eating-meat essay contest
Easily the smartest thing connected with The New York Times Magazine’s tedious essay contest on the ethics of eating meat came not within the confines of the contest itself, but in Public Editor Art Brisbane’s column about the contest. Brisbane asked Calvin Trillin—an omnivore of great gusto and renown—to send an essay about why it’s okay to eat animals. Trillin...
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April 20, 2011 10:32 AM
Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast
In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new collection, Trillin on Texas, out now from the University of Texas Press. In this excerpt of their conversation, Meyer asks Trillin about his experiences reporting and writing "U.S. Journal," his series of features that ran in The New Yorker from...
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