Salon.com > thurber prize http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Calvin Trillin wins Thurber Prize for American Humor http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/calvin_trillin_wins_thurber_prize_for_american_humor/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/calvin_trillin_wins_thurber_prize_for_american_humor/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:16:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13029590 Long-time New Yorker staff writer Calvin Trillin won the 2012 Thurber Prize for his book, "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff." Trillin has the comic equivalent of perfect pitch," said judge and humor writer Jennifer Crusie. "He addresses everything from sausage to politics with clarity, elegance and a fine dry wit, never missing a note."

Trillin talked about his approach to humor in an interview with Mother Jones last year:

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