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legal parking spot in
Manhattan, as well as the
hours when parking is permit-
ted. His hobby is to occupy
choice spaces until the meters
run out, sitting in his Chevy
Malibu and reading a newspa-
per — all to the consternation
of other drivers looking for a
spot.
Soon, he's a minor celebrity,
and attracting crowds.
The book is an outgrowth of
Trillin's own experiences driv-
ing in New York. "I'd look for
a spot and often I'd find some-
one sitting in a car and ask if
he was going out. He'd shake
his head or his finger, and
eventually I began to wonder,
`Who the hell is that guy?
Going Out
What's he doing there?'"
That experience became the
genesis of a short story the
New Yorker published in 1985.
Trillin periodically attempted
to expand the story into a
"Tepper Isn't Going Out" is an
book. "I had several false starts
outgrowth
of author Calvin Trillin's
— and some might say a false
own
experiences
driving in New York.
finish over the years," he
joked.
It wasn't until Rudy Guiliani
became mayor that Trillin saw
the light.
Most famously, he's a contributor
A pivotal character in Tepper is
of
a Purimspiel for a Jewish Museum
Frank Ducavelli — known as II Duce
fund-raiser.
— a dictatorial mayor for whom
"Apparently in the shreds, people
quality-of-life crimes are a personal
went around giving their versions of
affront. He wants Tepper prosecuted
the Book of Esther, he recalled.
as a public nuisance.
His contribution? A poem of
Even after the post-WTC heroics
approximately 80 lines that pointed
of Rudy Guiliani, Trillin wouldn't
out how Esther used her feminine
dream of softening the Ducavelli
wiles
to protect her people and get
character. "No, I wouldn't change
rid of Haman.
the [character] because Guiliani
It concludes: "It may be no armed
became a hero. I've said in speeches
brigade'll / Protect you better than a
that we're very proud of him and
that we were lucky to have him there savvy shayna maidel (pretty girl)/
And maybe we should put away our
when a paranoid control freak was
knives / When we're discussing
exactly what the situation called
flashy trophy wives."
for."
Meanwhile, Trillin is uncertain
what to do with the hundreds of
cards and letters of sympathy he's
Being A Mentsh
Trillin was born and raised in Kansas received from his fans.
Alice, his shayna maidel, was an
City, "Missoura," as he calls it. After
integral
character in several of
graduating from Yale, he came to
Trillin's books, including Travels
New York to write, getting his first
With Alice and his The Tummy
big break with Time magazine.
Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Lets
Though secular, Trillin is Jewish.
Eat; and Third Helpings.
As he says, "What else is'there to
"People wrote because of what I'd
consider me?"
written about her over the years. They'd
The author of the touching memoir
Messages From My Father ("You might as write, We don't know Alice, but ...
"Alice would have hated that. She
well be a mentsh," his father advises),
would have said, 'That's right. You
Trillin, the father of two daughters, is a
don't know me.'
regular judge at a local synagogue's
"But I found those letters touch-
annual Chanukah latke contest and on
ing, because even though they didn't
the charity circuit for organizations such
know her, they did know how I felt
as the Weitzman Institute of Science.
about her."

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