Letters to the Editor
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Reading Trillin Out Loud
I hope Rebecca Traister will be pleased to know that her father is not the only one to read Trillin out loud to his family; I've been doing it for twenty five years. The Tummy Trilogy is a cultural landmark in our family; I once smashed the speed limit the whole way across Missouri to get to Arthur Bryant's before closing time. We had brunch on our silver wedding anniversary at Shopsin's. And we were fortunate enough to meet Bud Trillin (if you see him in person, it's pretty much impossible to call him anything else) at a book signing. He is very huggable in person, but you can see the wistfulness when he talks about Alice.
I haven't read the New Yorker article and I'm a little scared to do so, because I was crying hard enough at Traister's article.