Tuesday, May 19, 2015

A Brief Ode to a Long and Beautiful Marriage



By Leslie Kendall Dye    |   Monday, May 18, 2015 - Off the Shelf
Calvin Trillin is not easy to sum up as an author; the good ones never are. His articles in The New Yorker and The Nation, as well as his books and poetry, range from the political to the humorous, from poignantly reflective to deeply sentimental. Naturally, all of his work is a tapestry of these qualities and more.

He might be known best for Alice, Let’s Eat, in which he chronicles travel adventures with his wife and two girls. Even great writers are lucky to have one tour de force in them. About Alice, an ode to his late wife, is surely Trillin’s masterpiece.... READ MORE




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