{"product_id":"the-thane-of-cawdor-comes-to-bauxite-and-other-whimsy-and-wisdom-from-the-pen-of-mike-trimble-paperback","title":"The Thane of Cawdor Comes to Bauxite: And Other Whimsy and Wisdom From the Pen of Mike Trimble - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnie Dumas\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although of a relatively scarce breed,\" the \u003ci\u003eArkansas Times\u003c\/i\u003e observed in the obituary of the itinerant writer it had once employed, \"Mike Trimble was Arkansas's and perhaps the country's greatest self-deprecating journalist.\" Readers will find in this fifty-year inventory of Trimble's wit and wisdom all the vindication they might seek for that quaint judgment-the rare humble author. Whether he was chronicling, in the 1980s, rising political worthies like the far-into-the-future governors Asa Hutchinson and Mike Beebe, or, more often, the ordinary and feckless people that he encountered every day, befriended, and spent most of his career writing about, Trimble usually found a way, subtly or artlessly, to bring up his own failings, such as identifying the wrong person as the dead woman in an obituary he had written in his earliest days for his first employer, the \u003ci\u003eTexarkana Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e. Like the yokels in the vaudeville duos Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Rowan and Martin, and Fey and Poehler, Trimble's confessed bumblings were purposeful and studied instruments of his humor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArkansas produced more than its quota of weirdos, fabulists, con men, oleaginous politicians, charlatans, creeps, visionaries, and fantastical creatures-from Albert Pike, Arvin the Wino, Dr. Brinkley the Great Depression's goat-gland sex therapist, Editor Weston, and the salty riverboat queen Ray Dorthy all the way to Say McIntosh and Red the Irish Setter. Mike Trimble, the South's best and funniest storyteller, put them all down on paper for some of the best reading since \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e. Trimble turned humor into art and history into vaudeville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48821752725752,"sku":"9781945624285","price":33.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/wqHqghiYY79781945624285.webp?v=1780663832","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-thane-of-cawdor-comes-to-bauxite-and-other-whimsy-and-wisdom-from-the-pen-of-mike-trimble-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}