But enough about you : essays / Christopher Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Christopher, 1952- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--20th century.

American essays.

American essays--21st century.

Physical Description:

x, 450 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

Summary:

Christopher Buckley at his best: an extraordinary, wide-ranging selection of essays both hilarious and poignant, irreverent and delightful. In his first book of essays since his 1997 bestseller, Wry Martinis, Buckley delivers a rare combination of big ideas and truly fun writing. Tackling subjects ranging from "How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski" to "A Short History of the Bug Zapper," and "The Art of Sacking" to literary friendships with Joseph Heller and Christopher Hitchens, he is at once a humorous storyteller, astute cultural critic, adventurous traveler, and irreverent historian.

Contents:

But Enough About You

Freighter Days 15

Ecru, Brute? 17

The Nazi of the Quiet Car 20

Fish Story 23

Commencement Butterflies 25

Really-Really-Really Top Secret 28

Summers on Suzy 31

The Dirt on Dirt 35

Autumn, Intimations 37

How to Break into the Movies in Only Twelve Years 39

Into Thin Hair 43

Suburban Crank 54

But Seriously

Supreme Court Calendar 59

The Origin and Development of the Lobster Bib 62

A Short History of the Bug Zapper 65

Scrutiny on the Bounty 68

Good Evening and Good Luck 73

A Short History of the Billionaire 76

We Regret the Error 80

Your Horoscope 83

Out and About

Rambles with Maggie 89

Left. No, Right. No-Straight! 98

Machu Picchu 100

Dogged Pursuit 109

The History of the Hotel Minibar 115

Two in the Bush 118

Good Morning, Hanoi 125

Auschwitz 130

London, Remembrance Day 140

Easter Island 142

A Short History of the Hotel Alarm Clock 146

Plaque Tracking 151

Small Aircraft Advisory 153

Statecraft

The Vishnu 159

The New Yorker Political Cartoons 167

VP Questionnaire 173

Langella/Nixon 175

Trump: The Inaugural 178

Mr. Lincoln's Washington 181

Get Out the Pitchforks 188

The Secretary of History 191

Farewells

Tom Congdon 197

Dear Joe 199

JFK, Jr 216

Solzhenitsyn 219

Gore Vidal 221

Christopher Hitchens 224

Criticism

Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong 233

Kissinger on China 237

How It Went: Kurt Vonnegut 240

Apocalypse Soon 245

The New Yorker Money Cartoons 249

Catch-22 at Fifty 254

You Thieving Pile of Albino Warts! 262

Ray Bradbury 266

To-ga! 275

Reviews in Brief: Diana Books 278

Yours Ever, Plum 281

Reviews in Brief: New Lincoln Books 290

Our Man in Havana 292

Reagan's Card File 296

The Patriarch 300

The Way You Move 306

Thar He Blows (Again): Moby-Dick 310

The Year of Living Dyingly 321

La Belle France

A Reusable Feast 329

Paris to Die For 334

How Foie Gras Was My Valley 340

Hangin' with van Gogh and de Sade in Provence 345

Zagat Survey: The Louvre 350

Continuing Education

Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski 357

It Is with Regret 359

As You Go Forward 363

NASA Astronaut Screening, Revised and Updated 365

Post-Taliban Afghanistan: A Guide to the Key Players 367

The Debt of Socrates 370

After Saddam: A Briefer 372

The New Japanese SAT 374

The Higgs boson Particle and You: Q & A 377

Essays

Hoof in Mouth 383

Thank You for Not Warning Me 391

How to Write Witty E-mail 394

What's a Body to Do? 400

As I Was Saying to Henry Kissinger 404

My Entourage Is Bigger Than Your Entourage 411

Trust No One 420

The Art of Sacking 422

I Like to Drink a Martini 426

You Can Do It! 428.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781476749518 ;