Tepper Isn't Going Out A Novel

Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn't going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literalthe indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter. But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don't. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out what it is. Tepper Isn't Going Outis a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.

<b>CALVIN TRILLIN<br></b><br>Calvin Trillin has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. A staff writer for <i>The New Yorker</i> for forty years, Trillin has been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America.” His antic commentary on the American scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a “happy eater” have earned him renown as “a classic American humorist.”<br><br>Trillin was born and raised in Kansas City, MO. He graduated from Yale in 1957, served in the army and then joined <i>Time</i> magazine. After a year covering the South from the Atlanta bureau, he became a writer for <i>Time</i> in New York.<br><br>In 1963, he became a staff writer for <i>The New Yorker</i>. From 1978 to 1985, Trillin was a co