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New Yorker Festival Attracts Throngs Of Fans Despite Publishing Woes

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, John Turturro, Roger Angell New Yorker, Calvin Trillin, Stephen Colbert, New York, Ronger Angell, Msnbc, Calvin Trillin Food Tour, Manhattan, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Maddow, Elizabeth Edwards, The New Yorker Festival, Ariel Levy, Joan Cusak, New Yorker Festival Humor Revue, New York News

NEW YORK — The journalism industry may be in precarious shape, but you wouldn't have known it at the annual New Yorker Festival, where star wors...

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Calvin Trillin: Recession Caused By Intelligent People

nytimes.com | CALVIN TRILLIN | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Ivy League, Recession, Calvin Trillin, Business News

"The financial system nearly collapsed," he said, "because smart guys had started working on Wall Street." He took a sip of his martini, and stared st...

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The Gastronomy of Marriage Author on the Tempestuous Relationship between Love and Food

Louise McCready | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Calvin Trillin, Julia Reed, Julia Child, Aj-Liebling, Food, Deborah Madison, Mfk-Fisher, Michelle Maisto, Love, F, Gourmet Magazine, Media News
Louise McCready

When Rich and I moved in together, I wanted everything to go smoothly, so it freaked me out when food -- what had been our biggest bond -- became our biggest problem.

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The 2008 Election in Verse

John Lundberg | Posted 01.07.2009 | Living

Read More: The Poetic Life, Election in Verse, Calvin Trillin, Calvin Trillin Daily Show, Living News
John Lundberg

Calvin Trillin, responding to Daily Show host John Stewart's impish description of his new book in verse on the 2008 election Deciding the Next Decide...

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When Bad PR Happens to Good People, or, Jeffrey Birnbaum's Revenge

William Klein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Jeffrey Birnbaum, Ethics in Journalism, Newspaper Op-Eds, Journalism, Public Relations, Dick Van Dyke, Sclc, Congressional Record, Calvin Trillin, Charles Steele, Jr., Victor Navasky, Media News
William Klein

Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum has his panties in a twist again about the practice of public policy advocates employing professional writers to help them draft newspaper op-eds.

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McCain Celebrates Huge Pennsylvania Win

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, Andy Borowitz, Jonathan Alter, Katie Couric, Calvin Trillin, Hillary Clinton, Susie Essman, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Borowitz

A jubilant McCain said that "It became abundantly clear that the people of Pennsylvania want to send the Republicans back to the White House for another four years."

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