Trillin on Texas / / Calvin Trillin.
"Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so's you'd know it." So Calvin Trillin introduces this collection of articles and poems about a place that turns up surprisingly often when he's ostensibly writing about something else. W...
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Trillin, Calvin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Trillin on Texas / Calvin Trillin. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2011 1 online resource (196 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Bridwell Texas History Series Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- By Meat Alone -- The Dynasticks -- Mystery Money -- Bad Language -- Scouting Sleepers -- Confessions of a Speechwriter/ And Especially to Pickens, S.C. -- Knowing Johnny Jenkins -- If the Boot Fits ... -- New Cheerleaders -- Whose Mines Are They? -- Not Super-Outrageous -- Three Texans in Six Lines -- Making Adjustments -- Presidential Ups and Downs: Washington Pundits Take Their Analytical Skills to the Ranch -- The Life and Times of Joe Bob Briggs, So Far -- One Texan in Eight Lines -- Reformer -- Molly Ivins, R.I.P. -- Credits restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so's you'd know it." So Calvin Trillin introduces this collection of articles and poems about a place that turns up surprisingly often when he's ostensibly writing about something else. Whether reporting on the American scene for the New Yorker, penning comic verse and political commentary for the Nation, or writing his memoirs, Trillin has bumped into Texas again and again. He insists that "this has not been by design . . . there has simply been a lot going on in Texas." Astute readers will note, however, that Trillin's family immigrated to the United States through the port of Galveston, and, after reading this book, many will believe that the Lone Star State has somehow imprinted itself in the family's imagination. Trillin on Texas gathers some of Trillin's best writing on subjects near to his heart—politics, true crime, food, and rare books, among them—which also have a Texas connection. Indulging his penchant for making "snide and underhanded jokes about respectable public officials," he offers his signature sardonic take on the Bush dynasty and their tendency toward fractured syntax; a faux, but quite believable, LBJ speech; and wry portraits of assorted Texas county judges, small town sheriffs, and Houston immigration lawyers. Trillin takes us on a mouthwatering pilgrimage to the barbecue joint that Texas Monthly proclaimed the best in Texas and describes scouting for books with Larry McMurtry—who rejects all of his "sleepers." He tells the stories of two teenagers who dug up half a million dollars in an ice chest on a South Texas ranch and of rare book dealer Johnny Jenkins, who was found floating in the Colorado River with a bullet wound in the back of his head. And he recounts how redneck movie reviewer "Joe Bob Briggs" fueled a war between Dallas's daily newspapers and pays tribute to two courageous Texas women who spoke truth to power—Molly Ivins and Sissy Farenthold. Sure to entertain Texans and other folks alike, Trillin on Texas proves once again that Calvin Trillin is one of America's shrewdest observers and wittiest writers. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/726505 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292733787 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292733787/original |
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Indulging his penchant for making "snide and underhanded jokes about respectable public officials," he offers his signature sardonic take on the Bush dynasty and their tendency toward fractured syntax; a faux, but quite believable, LBJ speech; and wry portraits of assorted Texas county judges, small town sheriffs, and Houston immigration lawyers. Trillin takes us on a mouthwatering pilgrimage to the barbecue joint that Texas Monthly proclaimed the best in Texas and describes scouting for books with Larry McMurtry—who rejects all of his "sleepers." He tells the stories of two teenagers who dug up half a million dollars in an ice chest on a South Texas ranch and of rare book dealer Johnny Jenkins, who was found floating in the Colorado River with a bullet wound in the back of his head. 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