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    Calvin Trillin - Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme

    Calvin Trillin - Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme

    Kepler's Bookstore

    December 4, 2008

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    Election 2008: Never have so many said so much in the pursuit of so little. And who better than Calvin Trillin to encapsulate in crystalline verse every vainglorious speech, flat-footed gaffe, blatant misstatement, and calculated pandering gesture of the many men (and one woman) who knew in their hearts that only they could ably guide the Free World. It’s all here!

    Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of A Heckuva Job, Obliviously on He Sails, and About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme.

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      Dates:
      December 4, 2008

      Times:
      7:30pm

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      1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025

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