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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

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Readers

23/100

Critics

87/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Calvin Trillin

Publisher:

Random House

Date:

February 13, 2024

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 writing on reporting, reporters, and their world.

What The Reviewers Say

Laurie Hertzel,
The Los Angeles Times
Both humorous and serious.
Dwight Garner,
The New York Times
This book is buoyant and crunchy from end to end.
Curt Schleier,
The Star Tribune
Calvin Trillin is an annoyingly good writer.
Holly Hebert,
Library Journal
Trillin engages readers through a veritable history of journalism that meanders through decades, subjects, and personalities.