Calvin Trillin

Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963.

Calvin Trillin on “About Alice.” TC Tolbert on poetry. Paweł Pawlikowski on "Cold War."

Calvin Trillin has spent 50 years reporting on race in the U.S. and talks about his new anthology of articles. 

The New Yorker writer tells us about his annual walking tour through the West Village, Soho, Little Italy and Chinatown, which includes stops at favorite eateries.

New Yorker contributor Calvin Trillin describes his visits to the Hot Tamale Capital of the World—Greenville, Mississippi—and talks about the closing of his beloved Joe’s Dairy store on Sullivan Street in New York. He’s the author of "Mozzarella Story: A Cheese Ritual" in the December 2 issue of The New Yorker, and "Tamales on the Delta" in the January 6 issue.

 

Calvin Trillin, New Yorker staff writer and The Nation’s deadline poet, talks about his latest book of collected works, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. He cover topics from the literary life to the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers.

Kurt Andersen talks with humorist Calvin Trillin about his Tummy Trilogy. 

Trillin has been a staff writer for The New Yorker for nearly thirty years. He is the author of 19 books, including the best-selling Remembering Denny and three books chronicling his eating adventures — American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat, ...