The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Hillary Clinton to David Petraeus, The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley offers his own nominations for smartest personage of the decade. Barack Obama, for turning a convention speech into the presidency in four years. Chesley "Sully"...
Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
... novels showing cross-cultural connections gone wrong that I've ever read.) Losing Mum and Pup , Christopher Buckley--U.S. (Another without a cross-cultural component, but loss of parents is cross-cultural and Buckley's dad, William F. Buckley certainly had a lot of opinions about the world.) Zeitoun, Dave Eggers--U.S. (Syrian connection) I met Dave Eggers. He's as wonderful...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Members of the NR family have been honored by the New York Times for writing some of the best books of the year. Christopher Buckley’s Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir made the list of the hundred most notable books of 2009. And Terry Teachout’s Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michiko Kakutani for her personal top-ten list . (Occasional...
MRod says: (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
One of the gifts in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the “Algonquin Round Table Experience” which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs. Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George...
