"In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day" and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, "the county would come and take the child." Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page-his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page-an...

Trillin's account of the writing of weekly topical poems for The nation since publication, in 1990, of "If you knew what Sununu", including reflections on the subjects of the poems and on the writing of poems to deadline

Justin is "the awfulest kid in the class," if there's anything that Matt won't eat, and if you can send back a new baby brother.

An compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.