The Thane of Cawdor Comes to Bauxite Trimble Mike
"Although of a relatively scarce breed," the Arkansas Times observed in the obituary of the itinerant writer it had once employed, "Mike Trimble was Arkansas's and perhaps the country's greatest…
Specifikacia The Thane of Cawdor Comes to Bauxite Trimble Mike
"Although of a relatively scarce breed," the Arkansas Times 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 Texarkana