The Lives They're Living

Dwight Garner is a book critic for The New York Times; his books include Garner's Quotations and The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, & Eating While Reading. Calvin Trillin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963 and has published more than 400 pieces there, most recently "Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye." He has published twenty-two non-fiction books, four works of fiction, and six of light verse, most of it topical. (Trillin calls it "Deadline Poetry.")

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