A review by caroparr
Quite Enough Of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years Of Funny Stuff by Calvin Trillin

4.0

In a stellar collection, three pieces stand out. The Alice Tax states simply that "After a certain level of income, the government would simply take everything...The ruling principle of the Alice Tax is the concept of enoughness." After all, after you make $10 million, how many more millions do you really need? Alice is also the recipient of Iran, meaning that her loving husband excused her from keeping up with the news from there - he would shoulder the burden. (In return, she gave him Cyprus, which was a more generous present in the 1970s than it would be now.) Finally, in a light collection, he jabs in the knife from time to time, notably in his poem about Roman Polanski's arrest and the outcry from some celebrities about the unfairness of it all: "How can these people get so riled?/ He only raped a single child." There will never be enough of Calvin Trillin.