{"product_id":"quite-enough-of-calvin-trillin-forty-years-of-funny-stuff","title":"Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eQuite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCalvin Trillin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400069828\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e15th\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFor at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place--in \"The New Yorker, \"in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his \"deadline poetry\" for \"The Nation, \"in comic novels like \"Tepper Isn't Going Out, \"in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater, and in the column \"USA Today\" called \"simply the funniest regular column in journalism.\" \u003cbr\u003eNow Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance (\"My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes\") and the literary life (\"The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.\") \u003cbr\u003eIn \"Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, \"the author deals with such subjects as 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 (\"We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal\") and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: \"The one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, 'I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.' \" He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called \"On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok\" and John Edwards with one called \"Yes, I Know He's a Mill Worker's Son, but There's Hollywood in That Hair.\" \u003cbr\u003eIn this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff | Calvin Trillin | Hardcover | 9781400069828 | Used: Very Good | Humor 1670532","offer_id":48694290251928,"sku":"1670532","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51nxRpL3MmL.jpg?v=1773763812","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/quite-enough-of-calvin-trillin-forty-years-of-funny-stuff","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}