Today is Calvin Trillin's birthday. Trillin is a prolific writer, whose work spans several disparate genres, and he's one of my favorite authors.- Trillin is an avid eater and food writer: The Tummy Trilogy brings together three of his best works on the subject.
- He's a wicked political poet: besides being the "Deadline Poet" for The Nation where he contributes topical, satirical poems each and every week, his poetry has been collected in Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme and A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme.
- He's a novelist: Tepper Isn't Going Out chronicles one New Yorker's affair with the perfect parking spot.
- And he's powerful memoirist: his recent paean to his late wife About Alice is as moving a tribute to love as you can hope to find.
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