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1. November 3, 2011 01:13 PM

   A Cook’s Tour with Molly Ivins

   A recipe-laden memoir of the columnist’s life and times

   By Nicola Kean

   Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins: A Memoir with Recipes | By Ellen Sweets | University of Texas Press | 288 pages, $29.95 Molly Ivins was many things; columnist, civil libertarian, “professional Texan.” But she also had a reputation as a fabulous cook and legendary hostess. It’s this side of the writer that friend and fellow foodie Ellen Sweets attempts...

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2. August 17, 2011 10:04 AM

   A State-Backed Miracle

   As Perry pushes Texas boom, the press shouldn't forget one reason behind it

   By Greg Marx

   With Rick Perry now officially in the presidential race, there’s a spate of coverage and commentary about how much credit the governor of the Lone Star State can claim for the purported “Texas miracle”—the fact that during the dismal recovery of the last two years, the state has accounted for somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of total job growth...

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3. April 20, 2011 11:40 AM

   Presidential “Outburst” Much Ado About Nothing

   But Obama could have offered alternative critique

   By Joel Meares

   The magical algorithms that rank the importance and popularity of the day’s political stories at the website Memeorandum had this morning placed at the top of the heap a story about President Obama’s “outburst” during an interview with a Texas TV network. It is apparently, so far, the most distracting story on a day of many political distractions—Memeorandum also...

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4. 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”

   By Michael Meyer

   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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5. April 20, 2011 10:32 AM

   Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

   By Lauren Kirchner

   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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