The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Trillin, Calvin
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Trillin, Calvin

The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from...
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Author: Calvin Trillin
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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Trillin, Calvin

The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

$70.23
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Trillin, Calvin

The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

$70.23
Author: Calvin Trillin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin

"A literary treasure."--The Washington Times

I've been writing about the press almost as long as I've been in the game. At some point, it occurred to me that disparate pieces from various places in various styles amounted to a picture from multiple angles of what the press has been like over the years since I became a practitioner and an observer.

Calvin Trillin has reported serious pieces across America for The New Yorker, covered the civil rights movement in the South for Time, and written comic verse for The Nation. But one of his favorite subjects over the years--a superb fit for his unique combination of reportage and humor--has been his own professional environment: the American press.

In The Lede, Trillin gathers his incisive, often hilarious writing on reporting, reporters, and the media world that is their orbit. He writes about a legendary crime reporter in Miami and about a swashbuckling New York Times reporter and about an erudite film critic in Dallas who once a week transformed himself from an appreciator of the French nouvelle vague into a crude connoisseur of movies like Mother Riley Meets the Vampire. There are pieces on the House of Lords aspirations of a North American press baron, the paucity of gossip columns in Russia, the embroilment of a weekly newspaper in a missing person case, and the founding of a publication called Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking.

Uniting all of this is Trillin's signature combination of empathy, humor, and graceful prose. The Lede is an invaluable portrait of one our fundamental American institutions from a master journalist.

Author: Calvin Trillin
Publisher: Random House
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593596449


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2023 pg. 23
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