Some of the people on the political scene are just silly. You don't have to be angry at them," Calvin Trillin told us last fall, ahead of a scheduled local reading. That event was canceled, and the year after was dominated by an election cycle of fairly robust anger. Hence Trillin's new volume,
Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. The longtime
New Yorker staff writer reads from the book at 1:30 p.m. today at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (5801 West 115th Street, Overland Park). A copy of the $16 hardcover includes two tickets; call 913-384-3126 or see
rainydaybooks.com.
— Scott Wilson
913-327-8000
