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Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley

Christoper Buckley is an author, satirist, and novelist. His books include Thank You for Smoking and Supreme Courtship. Buckley was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush.

Issue January 2011

Shade of Home

Reckoning with the ghosts of mum and pup— and their color choices… More »

Issue December 2010

My Year at Sea

Recalling the splendid isolation of travel by freighter… More »

No One Likes a Deficit Bore

No One Likes a Deficit Bore

It's fine for some Baby Boomers to talk about taxing their inheritance to pay down the debt—but that's all we've had for the last 30 years: talk… More »

Issue December 2006

Election Day 2008

A letter from Florida… More »

Issue November 2005

The New Japanese SAT

A history lesson… More »

Issue September 2005

One of Our Whales Is Missing

In which Rick Renard, PR hustler par excellence, sets out to save Grimland's gentle giants of the deep. A short story … More »

Issue June 2005

The Flirty Dozen

The field testing of Agent Mauve… More »

Issue October 2004

Florence of Arabia (Part II)

One woman's crusade to bring female emancipation to the Middle East. A short story… More »

Issue September 2004

Florence of Arabia

How one woman (plus a disgraced Green Beret, a shameless PR lackey, and the wife of a sheikh) brought the Middle East to the brink of female emancipation. A short story… More »

Issue April 2004

Royal Pain

Further adventures of Rick Renard. A short story… More »

Issue December 2003

Scrutiny On the Bounty: Captain Bligh's Secret Logbook

"No monster on the high seas has equaled the infamous ship captain William Bligh. And no movie fan can forget the scene in which Charles Laughton, the definitive Bligh in the 1935 film, instructs his crew to keep flogging a man. That he's dead makes no difference to Bligh, lips curled with unfettered malignancy. … More »

Issue April 2003

We Have a Pope!

A short story… More »

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