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Remembering Denny

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  • ABOUT Calvin Trillin

    Once called “perhaps the finest reporter in America,” humorist Calvin Trillin has written consistently for The New Yorker for over forty years and is considered The Nation’s “deadline poet.” He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from Yale in 1957. In addition to his articles, he has published over twenty-five books including “Messages from My Father” (1996), and Feeding Yen (2003).

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The smile was the centerpiece of his breezy California style.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 9, 1996.

Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker essayist and author of twenty-six books including Messages From My Father, reads from Remembering Denny, his best-selling memoir of a Yale classmate. He begins by reading three recent obituaries from his colleagues John Murphy, Richard Harris, and Andrew Kopkind. After reading from Remembering Denny, he responds to questions from the audience.

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