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Calvin Trillin, Not Dating
My review of Calvin Trillin's "About Alice" ran a few days ago. Here's Lizzy Ratner's fantastic feature on Trillin in the New York Observer. She details how the New Yorker essay (and now book) about his late wife seemed to "trip some kind of secret wire in urban romantics' hearts."
My favorite exchange:
As for the thorny question of dating, he responded that he could conceive of it, though "not in some organized way."
"I don't want to be fixed up with your aunt, if that's what you mean," he said.
Calvin Trillin (pictured with Alice after their London marriage in 1965) benefited from his wife's contributions as muse, straight woman, and sounding board. (courtesy of calvin trillin)
