Best Selling Books by Christopher Buckley

An all-star team of eighteen conservative writers offers a hilarious, insightful, sanctimony-free remix of William Bennett’s The Book of Virtues—without parental controls. The Seven Deadly Virtues sits down next to readers at the bar, buys them a drink, and an hour or three later, ushers them into the revival tent without them even realizing it. The book’s contributors include Sonny Bunch, Christopher Buckley, David “Iowahawk” Burge, Christopher Caldwell, Andrew Ferguson, Jonah Goldberg, Michael Graham, Mollie Hemingway, Rita Koganzon, Matt Labash, James Lileks, Rob Long, Larry Miller, P. J. O’Rourke, Joe Queenan, Christine Rosen, and Andrew Stiles. Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard, editor of the collection, is also a contributor. All eighteen essays in this book are appearing for the first time anywhere. In the book’s opening essay, P. J. O’Rourke observes: “Virtue has by no means disappeared. It’s as much in public view as ever. But it’s been strung up by the heels. Virtue is upside down. Virtue is uncomfortable. Virtue looks ridiculous. All the change and the house keys are falling out of Virtue’s pants pockets.” Here are the virtues everyone (including the book’s contributors) was taught in Sunday school but have totally forgotten about until this very moment. In this sanctimony-free zone: • Joe Queenan observes: “In essence, thrift is a virtue that resembles being very good at Mahjong. You’ve heard about people who can do it, but you’ve never actually met any of them.” • P. J. O’Rourke notes: “Fortitude is quaint. We praise the greatest generation for having it, but they had aluminum siding, church on Sunday, and jobs that required them to wear neckties or nylons (but never at the same time). We don’t want those either.” • Christine Rosen writes: “A fellowship grounded in sociality means enjoying the company of those with whom you actually share physical space rather than those with whom you regularly and enthusiastically exchange cat videos.” • Rob Long offers his version of modern day justice: if you sleep late on the weekend, you are forced to wait thirty minutes in line at Costco. • Jonah Goldberg offers: “There was a time when this desire-to-do-good-in-all-things was considered the only kind of integrity: ‘Angels are better than mortals. They’re always certain about what is right because, by definition, they’re doing God’s will.’ Gabriel knew when it was okay to remove a mattress tag and Sandalphon always tipped the correct amount.” • Sonny Bunch dissects forbearance, observing that the fictional Two Minutes Hate of George Orwell’s 1984 is now actually a reality directed at living, breathing people. Thanks, in part, to the Internet, “Its targets are designated by a spontaneously created mob—one that, due to its hive-mind nature—is virtually impossible to call off.” By the time readers have completed The Seven Deadly Virtues, they won’t even realize that they’ve just been catechized into an entirely different—and better—moral universe.

NUMBER 13, AUTUMN 2015 . . .all men and women are created equal in rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton, revision of the American Declaration of Independence, 1848 Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism. Evening Street Review reads submissions of poetry (free verse, formal verse, and prose poetry) and prose (short stories and creative nonfiction) year round. Submit 3-6 poems or 1-2 prose pieces at a time. Payment is one contributor’s copy. Copyright reverts to author upon publication. Response time is 3-6 months. Please address submissions to Editors, 2881 Wright Street, Sacramento, CA 95821. Email submissions are also acceptable; send to the following address as Microsoft Word or rich text files (.rtf): [email protected].

In the campaign in Greece and the battle for Crete the tale is of military failure, mainly due to the German command of the air over both land and sea. But the skill and endurance of British forces staved off utter disaster in Greece and made the Germans pay a heavy and unwelcome price for their conquest of Crete.

Holy Days of Obligation, the third part of Christopher Buckley''s memoir trilogy is a book about place and vocation. Set primarily in Santa Barbara and Montecito in the 1950''s and 60''s, among the woods and natural elements all around him, in the residue of light lifting from soda fountains, movies, surf boards, and old Chevrolets, the narrator of these crisp essays finds his consciousness forming a faith in the power of "place" and in the work of art.

Christopher Buckley investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Often the seascapes along the California coast toss their debris of ontological doubts upon the shores of his writing . . . uncertainties concerning God, the human condition, the limits of our knowing, and the universe. Buckley''s poetry provides readers with the constant blending of beautiful language and stirring content. Full of emotion, Varieties of Religious Experience promises to deliver meaningful messages.

From the bestselling author of "Thank You for Smoking" and "Wry Martinis" comes a riotous tale about a Wall Street broker who joins a monastery after losing all his clients'' money.

Christopher Buckley?s latest book continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love, loss, value, self, and God?not to mention the depredations of war. In his poetry and nonfiction, he has considered these matters in the belief that the answers to their mysteries are in the very act of pursuit. On every page is the work of a consummate artist who is also, recognizably, a companion spirit on the journey all of creation has been on all this time.

Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Vern Rutsala Book Prize. "THE FAR REPUBLICS is expansive--an exuberant sensibility, but rueful. The public poems relish detail--all the brand names of the time are woven into a private living-as-it- goes account that also can''t forget what could have been. You can''t help but being swept into the flood."--Dennis Schmitz "Christopher Buckley''s gift for wide-ranging thinking meshes so gracefully with lovingly tender details; he feels like a companion voice for all time--a Hikmet, a Neruda, yes."--Naomi Shihab Nye Christopher Buckley''s past publications have won numerous awards, and his poems have been included in many anthologies and journals. Star Journal: Selected Poems was published in 2016 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series.

Witness/participant, "blasé as a boulevardier/ in the spring Paris air," Buckley couples a lyric poet''s urgency with a storyteller''s feral patience: "claptrap until my heart started doing double-takes-/ the bus driver with my retreating hairline, the mechanic/ with my beard and a little wound of ink or motor oil/ leaking from his breast pocket." These poems will take you, reader, from "the edge/ of the cliff" to "the tideline" and "outside the Arlington Theater" of a remembered matinee into a rumination on coyotes and stars. From One Sky to the Next-both in, and out of, this world-one of the strongest collections I''ve ever read-keeps pulling me back.-Roger Weingarten

A collection of conservative wit and humor, Conservative Christmas Quotables captures the best of The Christmas Virtues and delivers it in a pint-sized package. You''ll be sure to laugh along with the snark of P. J. O'' Rourke, Christopher Buckley, Jonah Goldberg, and others as they dish out the best bits of the holiday season. But you''ll also be sure to pause. Conservative Christmas Quotables brings us back to a time when Christ was still part of Christmas, and when family--holy and otherwise--was at the heart of the holiday. Conservative Christmas Quotables makes a great stocking stuffer for anyone who needs a laugh--or a break--this holiday season. "Stop undoing Christmas! Don''t you support Santa? And baby Jesus? You''re just going to take Him down? Stuff Him in a box? He gave us His life, Mom. His life!" --Stephen F. Hayes''s daughter, protesting the Christmas clean-up "The whole point of Christmas is not to have arguments. That''s what Thanksgiving dinner is for." --Jonah Goldberg "The joy of children running downstairs in their pajamas is the greatest gift Mom and Dad could ever want." --Larry Miller "These days, shopping has become a contact sport." --Heather Wilhelm "Once you surrender to the madness, families tend to be fun as hell. The weirder, the better." --Matt Labash "Assembler most diligent, Locator of Part 7b, Repairer of Part 45c, Provider of socket head screw, And of (@#$%-ing)hex key." --Christopher Buckley''s prayer to Joseph, patron saint of fathers "When a sale at Crate & Barrel gets entangled with the birth of Jesus, something has gone terribly wrong." --Kirsten Powers "On Christmas, you show up to honor the Holy Family while rolling your eyes at your own." --Jonathan V. Last

When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled--and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the country--"many of America''s most thoughtful voices," as Jon Meacham puts it--captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation less divided. An eclectic lineup of contributors--from Rosanna Arquette, Susan Bro and General Wesley Clark to Keith Olbermann, Stewart O''Nan and Anthony Scaramucci--puts a year of transition into perspective, and summons the anxieties and hopes so many have for better times ahead. As award-winning columnist Mary C. Curtis writes in the lead essay, "Saying you''re not interested in politics is dangerous because, like it or not, politics is interested in you." Novelist Christopher Buckley, a former speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, laments, "The Republican Senate, with one exception, has become a stay of ovine, lickspittle quislings, degenerate descendants of such giants as Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Howard Baker and John McCain." Nero Award-winning mystery novelist Stephen Mack Jones writes, to Donald Trump, "Remember: You live in my house. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is my house. My ancestors built it at a cost of blood, soul and labor. I pay my taxes every year to feed you, clothe you and your family and staff and fly you around the country and the world in my tricked-out private jet. If you violate any aspect of your four-year lease--any aspect--Lord Jesus so help me, I will do everything in my power to kick yo narrow ass to the curb." As Publisher Steve Kettmann writes in the Introduction: "The hope is that in putting out these glimpses so quickly, giving them an immediacy unusual in book publishing, we can help in the mourning for all that has been lost, help in the healing (of ourselves and of our country), and help in the pained effort, like moving limbs that have gone numb from inactivity, to give new life to our democracy. We stared into the abyss, tottered on the edge, and a record-setting surge of voting and activism delivered us from the very real threat of plunging into autocracy."

The poems are straightforward, intensely lyrical and totally accessible. Whether he is addressing his departed friend, the poet Ernesto Trejo, or the great swell off the Pacific Ocean that haunts his dreams, the voice is always the same, modest and direct. This is a humble poetry of great truths . . . -- Philip Levine, writing in Ploughshares Christopher Buckley''s gift for wide-ranging thinking meshes so gracefully with lovingly tender details, he feels like a companion voice for all time--a Hikmet, a Neruda, yes. -- Naomi Shihab Nye Not the East Coast satirical novelist . . . this Christopher Buckley has published several poetry books and anthologies that have won him numerous accolades. . . Like Thom Gunn, Gary Snyder, and other poets whose informal style of philosophical questing complements their easy intimacy with the natural, feeling world, Buckley''s new volume deserves an honored place on the shelves of well-rounded libraries and bookstores. --F. Josephine Arrowood -- FOREWORD These are poems of immortality and extinction that can still make you smile . . . (Buckley) has an exquisite ear for language and a gutsy way of blending bravado with humility . . .. no concept is overstated--it''s all marvelously fresh. --LIBRARY JOURNAL This is fluid, hypnotic writing, at once nostalgic and knowing . . . achieving a moody grandeur. --POETRY

Two things you never do: Kill a cop''s wife or kill a cop''s sister. Someone''s done both.and Newport Beach is about to explode.

"Winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry."--Book jacket.

Extensive correspondence between Buckley, then Editor at Forbes FYI and Heller, initially concerning magazine submissions and later including Heller''s comments on Buckley''s fiction and non-fiction. Includes typescript drafts of Heller''s articles for Forbes FYI and Buckley''s speech at Heller''s memorial service (2000).

Nick Naylor a sûrement le job le plus ingrat de tous les Etats-Unis. Porte-parole de l''industrie du tabac, il est l''un des hommes les plus impopulaires de Washington. De conférence de presse en talk-show télévisé, de colloque sur la santé en réunion à Hollywood, son habile - et douteuse - défense du tabagisme soulève les passions et l''entraîne dans des aventures invraisemblables. Voire parfois périlleuses... Drôle, cocasse, un rien provocateur et très peu politically correct, ce roman qui se moque du " néo-puritanisme " américain, tout en soulignant l''hypocrisie profonde et choquante de l''industrie du tabac, est un véritable tour de force. Christopher Buckley fait preuve, dans cette satire de l''Amérique d''aujourd''hui, d''une finesse, d''un mordant et d''un humour dévastateurs.

"Кристофер Тейлор Бакли -- американский писатель и журналист, хорошо знающий политическую кухню изнутри (спичрайтер Джорджа Буша-старшего в его бытность вице-президентом), автор одиннадцати книг, большинство из которых стали бестселлерами. Славу Бакли принес роман «Здесь курят», изданный в 1994 году и экранизированный в 2005 году. Герой романа Ник Нейлор, пиарщик табачного лобби, умело и цинично сражается с противниками курения; не обращая внимания на общественное негодование, он продвигает в массы идею о том, что курение практически безвредно. Кристофер Бакли в своих интервью говорил, что ему было интересно решать такую задачу -- поставить в центр романа отрицательного персонажа и попытаться взглянуть на окружающий мир его глазами. Особую пикантность роману придает появление на его страницах всемирно известных людей, лишь в редких случаях прикрытых прозрачными псевдонимами. Творчество Бакли не раз было отмечено различными наградами, в 2002 году он получил медаль Вашингтона Ирвинга за литературное мастерство." --

J. O. Banion est un coriace : son talk-show bat les records d''audience en déliant les langues de bois. Le jour où il croise un engin lumineux et des êtres parlant une langue incompréhensible, il doute. Des jardiniers ? Des pompiers ? Des terroristes ? La seule réponse plausible : des extra-terrestres. Le plus cynique des présentateurs télé doit prouver que les petits hommes verts existent...