Calvin Trillin talks about Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme. Returning to the form (and forum) that made bestsellers of Obliviously On He Sails and A Heckuva Job, the putative Bard of the Bush presidency recreates in verse all the lowlights of this year's endless campaign slog- Book Passage
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Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1963 and has contributed reporting pieces, humor, poetry, and essays. His many books include the comic novels "Floater" and "Tepper Isn't Going Out"; "Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme"; and the memoir "About Alice," which grew out of his New Yorker piece "Alice, Off the Page."