The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In spite of the last election reassuring me that this up over personality was out of our serious new lives forever, I have been unable to avoid Sarah Palin over the past few days.
Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In a New Yorker podcast, Calvin Trillin says: I live in Nova Scotia in the summer. And I hear a lot of talk about how Newfoundlanders eat mainly pork scrap. Hey, that’s what I eat: pork scrap. (And fermented food.) Pork scrap (large pieces of pork belly, actually) is absurdly cheap: $1/pound or less.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Quebec’s slow but steady cultural takeover of Manhattan nears completion. The New Yorker this week devotes four pages to poutine, but for evidence of the full colonization, listen to Calvin Trillin’s podcast in which he and an editor eat poutine and talk about Canada at a restaurant in the LES. It’s almost like we’re a [...]
montreal city weblog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The New Yorker's Calvin Trillin podcasts on poutine (mind you, poutine as sold in New York).
World Hum (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The new issue has a definite global bent, with stories on China’s burgeoning wine culture, spending Thanksgiving abroad and more. Most of the stories aren’t accessible online for non-subscribers, but John Colapinto’s ride-along with a Michelin restaurant inspector is available in full. There’s also a podcast to accompany Calvin Trillin’s “kamikaze” poutine...
Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Two weeks ago, when we were still ramping up to any Congressional vote over health care reform, I wrote the following remark about the impact of the "consciousness industry" on any likely outcome: Thus, the future of health care will rest not on either the underlying principles of "how doctors think" or even religious convictions of the faithful over the difference between right...
kitchen table math, the sequel (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Calvin Trillin: “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 straight at the row of bottles behind the bar, as if the conversation was now over. “But weren’t there smart guys on Wall Street in the first place?” I asked. He looked at me the way a mathematics...
Montclair Socioblog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
November 3, 2009 Posted by Jay Livingston “The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.” Calvin Trillin in an op-ed in the Times a couple of weeks ago , supposedly quoting some guy he meets in a bar. But Trillin was writing as a humorist, not a reporter (he does both very well), and I strongly suspect that his informant...
A Man With A Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
by Ethan Bloch Wasted Talent and Corruption: [Via Firedoglake] Calvin Trillin explains explains that the cause of the great crash of 2008 was all the smart people who went to Wall Street. Once upon a time, the big jobs on Wall Street were filed with third-raters, the guys who slept through Rocks for Jocks at Ivy U. [...]
Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Writer/Journalist/Columnist. Awarded for outstanding column and feature writing by APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) 2005, 2006; won New York Publishers Association's contest for Distinguished Sports Writing, 2007; included seven times in annual Best American Sports Writing anthology; voted Best Sportswriter in New York City by New York Press, 1990; won first place for profile writing by the Society...
Gone Mild (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
For most dishes, recipes are an inspiration, not a road map. There's no point in stressing over exact measurements for most recipes - differences in technique and ingredients are going to make your dish an individual creation anyhow. Relax, be yourself, and make it the way you like it. Pasta carbonara is a great example of this approach. In essence, it's bacon and eggs with pasta - breakfast bolstered...
the woodshed (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Calvin Trillin meets a guy in a bar who explains why the financial system went kablooey . For what it's worth, this explanation makes as much sense as any I've heard so far. The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
To Honor a Battler, Literary Peace Breaks Out By Patricia Cohen writing in The New York Times, Published: October 21, 2009 The Norman Mailer who was honored Tuesday night by the glittery literati at a gala benefit was generous, nurturing and diligent, a big cuddly teddy bear with rumpled white hair and a rocking chair that faced the bay. Only occasionally did the more familiar Mailer appear, the wild,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
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 worship of the magazine's most famous writers seemed to be in full force. "Did you see Calvin Trillin?" a middle-aged woman could be overheard saying excitedly to her companion at one event over the weekend. "He looked at me!" However...
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