In Calvin Trillin’s world, the secret to living the sweet life is simply making the right choices. And Trillin’s prolific writing career is nothing if not the chronicle of a lifetime of impeccable selections: He’s eaten the best food, lived in the coolest city, traveled to the most interesting places, and had the good fortune to meet and marry a wonderful woman. That might make him sound completely unbearable, but Trillin is saved by his own self-deprecating touch. He looks at the world with such thoughtful humor and curiosity—his recent output includes a series of books examining the verbal and logical lapses of our president, and a novel about a man who takes up plum parking spots in New York City—that his work offers reliably vicarious pleasure for those of us bumbling through life eating fast-food and road-tripping to Topeka. 651-290-1221; www.fitzgeraldtheater.org
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