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Calvin Trillin's "'Tepper Isn't Going Out" is a comic
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was his muse and soul mate.
"When it happens, you think
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you're never going to write again,"
Trillin said. "I actually did write
hough he is a man of
things on one level to please Alice,
many talents — journal-
and obviously on another level to
ist, essayist, memorist and
make a living. She read everything I
author of numerous best-
did."
But in the weeks after her death,
selling books of both fact and fiction
Trillin returned to his computer and
— Calvin Trillin is best known as a
wrote a lengthy article for the New
humorist.
Yorker, where he is a regular con-
His funny columns and poems
tributing writer. "It was good focus
appear in numerous publications,
for me. I was able to
including Time and The
write OK. I didn't get
Nation. His latest novel,
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the satisfaction out of it
Tepper Isn't Going Out
There have been few
that I once did. But I
(Random House;
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Tepper's World
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parking spot.
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Late
that
evening,
his
Sadly, there have been
Tepper
Isn't Going Out
wife,
Alice,
died.
few laughs for Trillin
was finished long before
since Sept. 11 — and not
Sept.11, but Trillin had
just because of the World
time to make a few
Trade Center disaster.
adjustments to it.
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He dedicated the book to Alice,
wife, Alice, died.
and made it clear that the plot was
"She was being treated for conges-
unrelated to the events at the World
tive heart failure," he said in a tele-
Trade Center — "so readers wouldn't
phone interview. "She didn't seem to
expect [the attack] to happen" in the
be responding very well, and we
course of the story.
were hoping she would get a heart
The comic novel tells the saga of
transplant. But she went into cardiac
Murray
Tepper, a mailing-list broker
arrest."
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