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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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