Most Popular Books by Christopher Buckley

From the all-star cast that brought you The Seven Deadly Virtues and The Dadly Virtues comes the ultimate Christmas survival guide: The Christmas Virtues. The Christmas season is a minefield of terrors: The family get-togethers with weird uncles, the sloppy office parties, the annoying 10-page Look-at-Us holiday letters—and we haven’t even mentioned the Black Friday mobs and that wretched Alvin and the Chipmunks song that plays every 90 minutes on Pandora, whether you like it or not. Rum-pah-pah-pum. And don’t forget the PC police lurking around every corner looking to beat the last bits of joy and comradery out of our society. Merry Christmas? Really? But it doesn’t have to be this way. ''Tis the season to recapture the wonder of Christmas, in our hearts and in our homes and even out in the public square. The Christmas Virtues is a humorous companion for, and guide to, navigating the trials and tribulations of the holiday season. It’s a reminder of how we can embrace the joy, hope, and love of Christmas—of the real Christmas. And a call for us to stand up for Christmas because America needs it now, more than ever. So sit back and enjoy the following tales by your favorite authors: Rob Long’s "The Christmas Spirit: In Defense of Ebenezer Scrooge.” P. J. O’Rourke’s “The Commercialization of Christmas: God Moves (The Merchandise) in a Mysterious Way.” Andrew Ferguson’s “Jingle Bell Rock: Taking the Christ Out of Christmas Songs” Matt Labash’s “Home for the Holidays: The Trials and Tribulations of Family.” Stephen F. Hayes’ "here Comes Santa Claus: The Wonder of Christmas Morning." Toby Young’s “The ghosts of Christmas: Holidays Past and Present” Jonah Goldberg’s “The War on Christmas: It’s Real, and It’s Spectacular.” Christopher Buckley’s “Saint Joseph: The Forgotten ‘Father Christmas.’” Kirsten Powers’ “The first Noel: Christmas with Jesus.” James Lileks'' "Boxing Day and the Christmas Hangover." And More

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Роман причудливый, притягательный, завораживающий - читающийся с неослабевающим интересом

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.