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Alice, Let’s Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin Who and what is the book about (back-of-the-book blurb): In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with [...] From the Metropolitan Diary column of the New York Times, Monday, April 26, 2010: Dear Diary, Emerging from the subway at 96th and Broadway, I heard the familiar sound of a man preaching from a Bible. Some things never change. But the Bible caught my eye — it was thinner than usual. The man was preaching from a [...] Every once in a while there’s an article or cartoon in the paper that has special appeal to readers; here’s one from The New York Times “Metropolitan Diary” column of July 6, 2009. Submitted by John Wasley: Dear Diary, Recently, I was at the Brooklyn Public Library returning books. Suddenly, the young woman checking in the borrowed [...] |
 
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