The lede : dispatches from a life in the press / Calvin Trillin

By:

Trillin, Calvin, 1935-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Random House, 2025Edition: Random House trade paperback editionDescription: xv, 311 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780593596463
0593596463

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LOC classification:

PN 4725 T829l 2025

Contents:

The lede Class acting This story just won't write Prediction memo Casuals Show and tell all Covering the cops On the assumption that Al Gore.. The case of the purloined turkey Newshound Corrections Invitations Paper Baron Presidential ups and downs Among friends Don Rumsfeld meets the press The years with Navasky The 401st Russell Baker Molly Ivins John Murphy Richard Harris John Gregory Dunne Morley Safer Andrew Kopkind Murray Kempton Out of style Dirty words The life and times of Joe Bob Briggs, so far Negative and controversial A few observations on the zapping of the inner circle The truth will out Beautiful spot By meat alone No gossip in Russia Alternatives Meeting my subjects Check it out Internetfactchecking.com New Grub Street Sabbath gasbags, speak up Back on the bus

Summary: 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. n 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, a swashbuckling New York Times reporter, and 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 unparalleled portrait of one of our fundamental American institutions from a master journalist.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 4725 T829l 2025 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000194963

Originally published in hardcover: 2024

The lede
Class acting
This story just won't write
Prediction memo
Casuals
Show and tell all
Covering the cops
On the assumption that Al Gore..
The case of the purloined turkey
Newshound
Corrections
Invitations
Paper Baron
Presidential ups and downs
Among friends
Don Rumsfeld meets the press
The years with Navasky
The 401st
Russell Baker
Molly Ivins
John Murphy
Richard Harris
John Gregory Dunne
Morley Safer
Andrew Kopkind
Murray Kempton
Out of style
Dirty words
The life and times of Joe Bob Briggs, so far
Negative and controversial
A few observations on the zapping of the inner circle
The truth will out
Beautiful spot
By meat alone
No gossip in Russia
Alternatives
Meeting my subjects
Check it out
Internetfactchecking.com
New Grub Street
Sabbath gasbags, speak up
Back on the bus

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. n 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, a swashbuckling New York Times reporter, and 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 unparalleled portrait of one of our fundamental American institutions from a master journalist.

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