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Calvin Trillin

Reflections of a Family Man

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Sibling détente in the back seat, spaghetti carbonara for Thanksgiving, turning in a "found" $20 bill to the NYC police lost & found—it must be another Calvin Trillin tale.

Calvin M. Trillin was born in Kansas City, Missouri. After receiving a B.A. from Yale University, he became a reporter for Time magazine and a staff writer for The New Yorker. An author of numerous books including Enough's Enough, Remembering Denny, and Messages from My Father, he also wrote and performed in a one-man show Calvin Trillin's Uncle Sam. In an interview by Linton Weeks of the Washington Post, Mr. Trillin ruminates on family, from basic child-rearing advice to a Thanksgiving that featured spaghetti carbonara.

This program was recorded June 9, 1998 at the Smithsonian Institution.

He is also the author of:

• Remembering Denny
  Paperback - 209 pages Reprint edition (April 1994)
• Family Man
  Paperback - 192 pages 1 Pbk Ed edition (June 1999)
• The Tummy Trilogy : American...
  Paperback - 386 pages (September 1994)

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