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New Yorker Festival Attracts Throngs Of Fans Despite Publishing Woes

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

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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

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"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 09.16.2009 | 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

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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

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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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