New Releases by Christopher Buckley

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

The New York Times bestseller. “With characteristic asperity and immeasurable tenderness, Christopher Buckley mourns his legendary parents.” —Vogue Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by O, The Oprah Magazine, iTunes, and USA Today In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York’s most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: “They were not—with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world—your typical mom and dad.” As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a fifty-five-year-old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse, Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends. “Loving, exasperated and very funny. In its moments of real ambivalence, Losing Mum and Pup is a surprisingly strong drink.” —The New York Times Book Review “Amusing, unsparing . . . Chris’s affection is clear.” —People “Touching and very amusing.” —Vanity Fair

President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won''t have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation''s most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.

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...

The father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man’s footsteps comes humorist and twenty-year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city’s founding. Well, not really. We’re just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there’s never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is con-tagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious. In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his “other” Washington. They include “Dante’s Paradiso” (Union Station); the “Zero Milestone of American democracy” (the U.S. Capitol); the “Almost Pink House” (the White House); and many other historical (and often hysterical) journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like clichés that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media-ready image might let on. From the Hardcover edition.

Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the presidency." With the help of Washington''s greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (called "transitioning") all the way to the White House, over the objections of the Religious Right, and of course, the Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.

A fiercely satirical look at today''s culture of spin, this hilariousmovie portrays the chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, NickNaylor, as the hero. Nick makes his living defending the rightsof smokers and cigarette makers. Confronted by health zealotsout to ban tobacco and an opportunistic senator who wants toput "poison" labels on cigarette packs, Nick goes on a PRoffensive, spinning away the dangers of cigarettes while stilltrying to be a role model to his twelve-year-old son. Thank You for Smoking features an all-star cast includingAaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody,Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, David Koechner, Rob Lowe,William H. Macy, J. K. Simmons, and Robert Duvall. This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes: Introduction by Jason Reitman Foreword by Christopher Buckley Complete Shooting Script Color still photographs Cast and crew credits

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of Nick Naylor?

A collection of essays by Christopher Buckley.

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.

La première dame des Etats-Unis, Beth MacMann, est accusée d''avoir tué le Président, son mari. Pourtant, si Beth reconnaît que les contusions sur le front du défunt sont bien de son fait, elle nie que ce soit la cause du décès. Mais, dans l''ignorance des circonstances exactes de la mort de son époux, comment assurer sa défense ? Beth fait appel à son ancien amant, Boyce Baylor, devenu l''avocat le plus cher du pays, et son procès devient le " procès du millénaire ", vaste cirque médiaticopolitique qui dépasse l''imagination. De coups de théâtre en coups de grâce bien assenés, Christopher Buckley, satiriste hors pair, nous entraîne dans un dédale juridique surréaliste - jusqu''à un dénouement inattendu, qui défie toutes les conventions, y compris celles du bon goût. Avis au lecteur : Toute ressemblance avec des personnages réels et vivants, qui sévissent encore dans les cénacles du gouvernement à Washington (ou ailleurs), ne serait pas entièrement fortuite...

Christopher Buckley moves within the same poem from the most commonplace, ordinary, drab, inarticulate experiences of life and language to the most lyrical, beautiful, and sublime. Buckley’s art changes mud and dirty shoes into sky. A master of his art, he has much to teach us about seeing, thinking, and feeling. As Gerald Stern has put it, Buckley’s “subject is radiance. So he hates fascism and believes we are more than dust. So I read him.”

Dear flappable reader: Do you bristle at a handshake that resembles a limp fish? Do oblivious pedestrians bring you to the brink? What about museum gift shops, superfluous courtesy (do we need a gas pump to show us gratitude?), behemoth SUVS, or inexplicable operating manuals? Have you had it with screeching leaf blowers, beseeching telemarketers, escalating movie-ticket prices, or proliferating celebrity magazines? Is it children''s choirs or karaoke singers, waiters bearing pepper grinders or dinner guests blathering on about salt, that drives you to distraction? For anyone who has recognized that this peaceful kingdom of ours has more than a few potholes, 101 Damnations is the perfect companion. It''s your ticket to the nine circles of personal hell. Armed with wit, bewilderment, and words to the wise ass, today''s leading humorists conduct a brief tour of the trivial and often universal exasperations we all must endure. Among the damning, Henry Alford reveals our wanton desire to affect Britishisms. Sandra Tsing Loh has it in for people who forward "funny" e-mails. Once and for all, Merrill Markoe sets forth cell phone etiquette. And there are many, many others. Ninety-eight to be exact. Make yourself comfortable. Misery loves company.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the ambitious First Lady of the United States (and known in the tabloids as “Lady Bethmac”), is on trial for the death of her philandering husband, and the only man who can save her is the boyfriend she jilted in law school—now the most shameless defense attorney in America. Published to rave reviews, No Way to Treat a First Lady is a hilariously warped love story for our time set in the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C.

A brilliant expression of philosophy and feeling, Christopher Buckley''s latest poetry collection explores growing up in the America of the fifties and sixties and coming to terms with the aging process. In dazzling language, Star Apocrypha bears the beauty and weight of the big questions. The poet looks to nature--the interior and exterior landscapes--for his answers and with wit and high-pitched intelligence accepts his art and life in the twenty-first century.