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William F. Buckley,, Jr.
Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy. It chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his…
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Ray Bradbury
This collection includes 100 of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience.
A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the…
Christopher Buckley
Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand, and invents a plan for female emancipation in this biting satire of…
Investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Buckley’s poetry provides readers with the constant blending of beautiful language and stirring content. Full of emotion, Varieties…
Buckley manages to have one foot In the physical muck and tenderness of the world and the other foot planted among the stars and galaxies of the universe…. -Peter Everwine
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Supreme Courtship is another classic Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.
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…
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Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley’s new collection. A god that may or may not be…
Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No…
This collection of poetry questions the metaphysics of life in the heavens and on earth, while still maintaining a focus on real life. Themes explored include a deep melancholy over…
Readers and critics alike have applauded Philip Levine’s poems for their eloquent and elegiac narrative and their vivas for the dignity of the human spirit. On the Poetry of Philip…
Bestselling author Buckley’s most personal and transcendent work–the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to…
A savage and hilarious satire of US political life.
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This much-acclaimed, wickedly funny bestseller by the author of The White House Mess pits Nick Taylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, against an increasingly self-righteous, anti-smoking society…
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The bestselling author of the comic classics The White House Mess and Thank You for Smoking returns to the funniest place in America–Washington, D.C.–as the First Lady is charged with…
An uproarious comedy about a presidential administration totally off the rails. This fictional political memoir by the Personal Assistant to President Tucker, Herbert Wadlough, offers a unique, utterly self-serving inside…
The award-winning and bestselling author delivers a hilarious fake memoir by Herb Nutterman-Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff-who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.
Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump’s White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president’s reelection campaign.
From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man's "lively and funny" (New York…
The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, in which a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a…
Christopher Buckley,Christopher Buckley
His twentieth collection of poetry, Back Room at the Philosophers’ Club evidences Buckley’s continued and rightfully-earned place in American letters.
A collection of Christopher Buckley’s longer poems, his most wide-ranging and serious work built with a symphonic structure - theme, variation, recapitulation trilled with speculative formations, its this/but that, its…
Philip Levine came to teach at Fresno State in 1958 and Peter Everwine followed in 1962; C.G. Hanclicek came in 1966 and the initial group of Fresno poets collected here…
About Christopher Buckley, the late poet Peter Everwine writes, ‘I don’t think that I know of another poet who has such vertical range and depth’. Buckley’s newest collection, Pre-Eternity of…
Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author’s time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance.
Buckley invites readers to come along on several walks around the town and shares a bit of this other Washington. The walks include: America’s Front Yard (The Mall), City of…
Witness/participant, "blase 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…
Wry Martinis is a witty, hilarious, brilliant collection of Christopher Buckley’s most memorable pieces for The New Yorker , the New York Times , the Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire and…
A collection of essays by Christopher Buckley.
Reid Buckley
The Buckley name is synonymous with a unique brand of conservatism. With charm and candor, the family’s youngest son tells the engaging–sometimes outrageous–story of a family that became the mainstay…
Chris Buckley
Exploring many significant British aircraft types that were active between World Wars One and Two, with the focus on modern-day survivors and replicas, this volume tells the story of how…
Christopher Buckley (University of California Riverside)
The latest book from Christopher Buckley continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love…
Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, Bird McIntyre and Angel Templeton provoke…
In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist Bird McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against…
A charismatic 29-year-old blogger incites massive political turmoil when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire…
Christopher Buckley’s hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Durer who conspire to fabricate Christ’s burial shroud reads like Indiana…
A remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees - each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees’s influence, magic, and power over the…
Michael Hill,Christopher Buckley
A delightful and entertaining book about one of America’s greatest humorists. -Seth Meyers
This absorbing, illuminating (Jon Meacham)biography of the legendary political humorist reveals the life behind his must-read Washington…
An anthology offers strategies and prompts for using single sentence as a principle of poetic structure, a rhetorical tool, and a stimulus. It includes an array of one-sentence poems from…
Joseph Heller
Paperback copy states Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition on t.p. verso.
Alexander Long,Christopher Buckley
Reviews, essays, and interviews by American poets affected by Larry Levis, as well as essays by Levis.
Flying Backbone collects Christopher Buckley’s poems from 1979 through 2007 responding to the life and paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Taken from one full-length book and two chapbooks-all long out of…
Christopher Buckley,Random House Inc
After being abducted by aliens–not once, but twice–a stuffy Washington D.C. talk-show host demands that Congress and the White House seriously investigate UFOs, while friends and family urge him to…
