Christopher Buckley

A portrait of life in a remote region of Papua, shortly after first contact with the modern world, describing its stone tools, sacred objects, secret rituals, and war. The Baliem valley lies in Papua, a remote eastern region of Indonesia and home to some of the last peoples on earth to come into contact with modern civilization. When anthropologist O.W. Hampton visited in the 1980s he found isolated peoples using stone tools, spears, and bows and arrows. Over the following ten years he documented life in the valley, including the making of stone axes and adzes--the last such tools to be in daily use on our planet. He collected sacred stones wrapped in orchid fiber and feathers, tools, net bags, and many other objects, and documented their uses in rituals of war and healing. In this book, author Christopher Buckley presents Hampton's fieldwork alongside new studio photographs of his collection, with detailed explanations. The book will be of value to archaeologists, anthropologists, students, collectors and curators of Papuan art, and anyone with an interest in how mankind lived in millennia past.

Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy. Here the irresponsible, eloquent, enjoyable Buckley guides us through his beloved Azores, and through the Galapagos ("the Bronx Zoo at the Equator"), about which he inclines more to Melville's view than to Darwin's, and through places such as Johnston Atoll, where mysteries and hostilities await. On a hilarious side adventure, we have a memorable encounter with "The Angel of Craig's Point." Along the way, Buckley navigates among pleasant diversions as well as unforeseen navigational and philosophical shoals. He adroitly excerpts the candid journals of his shipmates, notably that of his son, Christopher, himself a best-selling novelist. The fine photographs by Christopher Little illustrate throughout. When Buckley's Sealestial sails, finally, into New Guinea, we have shared a unique experience with a special breed of sailor, skipper, host, friend, and human being.

Vozdadim zhe dan uvazhenija The Vulgar Display of Power, vydajuschemusja pamjatniku tjazhjoloj muzyke! Po dobroj traditsii izdatelstvo Z2 vypuskaet graficheskij roman k jubileju znakovogo alboma gruppy Pantera! V "Gruboj demonstratsii sily" obedinilis takie izvestnye poklonniki kovboev iz ada, kak Alan Robert (Life of Agony), Erik Piterson (Testament), Kit Bakli (Every Time I Die), Bjorton Bell (Fear Factory), Stiv Najls ("30 dnej nochi"), Rajnan Dzh. Dauni (MTV News), Toni Li ("Doktor Kto"). Vmeste s krutejshimi khudozhnikami Polom Butom, Erikom Rodrigesom, Rajanom Kelli, Stivom Chenksom, Kevinom Mellonom, Dzhonom Pirsonom i Danielem Zezeem oni sozdali unikalnuju adaptatsiju vsekh odinnadtsati trekov plastinki, podariv poklonnikam metala novyj unikalnyj sposob vosprijatija legendarnogo tvorenija Pantera!

The Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic for the umpteenth time—but on this occasion with a sharp-eyed observer, whose brilliant account brings to life the harshness, humor, and bizarreness of life on board. 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. It is the tale of a ship and her crew, men fated to wander for a living--always steaming to, but never quite reaching, Bamboola. The was the first book by renowned author and humorist Christopher Buckley, which was originally published in 1982 to glowing reviews. Forty years and over a twenty books and hundreds of articles later, Buckley introduces Columbianna and her roguish crew to a new generation of readers.

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 Journal of Books) journey through lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work--on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He's told Peaches so often about the origins of the word mayonnaise that she's developed an aversion to using the condiment. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is losing his mind. In short, your typical pandemic worries. Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor suggested a battery of brain tests. He knows what that means: dementia But even in these scary times, there are plenty of things to do to distract him. His iPhone is fat-shaming him. He's. been trying to read Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a parfumier. And he's discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local coroner's face. Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County. Could it be the local military base? Has Anyone Seen My Toes? is a "laugh-out-loud" (Publishers Weekly) romp through a time that has been anything but funny.

Witness/participant, "blas 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

Over the years, de Havilland Canada has manufactured a number of remarkable commercial aircraft: the Beaver (considered the ultimate bush plane, against which every other bush plane is measured), Otter, Twin Otter, Dash 7 and Dash 8. It also developed the unique Buffalo and Caribou military transports, some of which ended up in airline operations. From floatplane operations in Canada, Alaska and the Pacific and up-country flying in Twin Otters in Africa and elsewhere, to glacier operations with the Turbo Otter, Dash 7s in Greenland and operations with major airlines worldwide, these aircraft have been used all around the world in a variety of different roles. By combining history, facts and figures with anecdotes, commentary and quotes, this book, which is illustrated with over 200 stunning photographs, celebrates these legendary aircraft.

"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 Post columns, featuring never-before-published photos, documents, and interviews. Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Doonesbury, there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald's Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington world of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the "greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift." Drawing on Buchwald's most memorable columns and unpublished correspondence with other famous people, Funny Business shows how Art Buchwald became an American original. Like Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and James Thurber, he satirized political scoundrels, lampooned the powerful, and "worshipped the quicksand" that ten presidents walked on, as Buchwald joked. "The key to Buchwald's style of humor, he once stated, was to "treat light subjects seriously and serious subjects lightly." But there was a darker, more serious side to Art Buchwald. A childhood spent in foster homes taught him to see comedy as a refuge. Buchwald also struggled with depression, a secret he kept from the public for nearly thirty years. This revealing book is studded with stories of Buchwald's friendships with Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Erma Bombeck, Frank Sinatra, Adam West (Batman), Robert Frost, and others. Throughout his career, Buchwald wrote about such historical events as the Vietnam War, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Watergate, and the 9/11 terrorist attack. Featured here are stories of Buchwald's nonstop one-liners, known in his day as "Buchshots." Entertaining and absorbing, Funny Business looks back on Buchwald's brilliant gift for humor and satire, which will once again bring readers a comedic respite from troublesome times.

In “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart 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 never intended to become Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff. Herb served the Trump Organization for twenty-seven years, holding jobs in everything from a food and beverage manager at the Trump Magnifica to being the first general manager of the Trump Bloody Run Golf Course. And when his old boss asks “his favorite Jew” to take on the daunting role of chief of staff, Herb, spurred on by loyalty agrees. But being the chief of staff is a lot different from being a former hospitality expert. Soon, Herb finds himself deeply involved in Russian intrigue, deflecting rumors about Mike Pence’s high school involvement in a Satanic cult, and leading President Trump’s reelection campaign. What Nutterman experiences is outrageous, outlandish, and otherwise unbelievable—therefore making it a deadly accurate account of being the chief of staff during the Trump administration. With hilarious jabs at the biggest world leaders and Washington politics overall, Make Russia Great Again is a timely political satire from “one of the funniest writers in the English language” (Tom Wolfe).

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 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.' Buckley's newest collection, Pre-Eternity of the World, is persistently the kind of poetry Everwine describes. In the title poem, Buckley describes pre-eternity as 'loads of quantum confetti / ad infinitum . . . under the floorboards / of time . . . . Go figure.' But, is this a simple dismissal, or is the poet asking the reader to calculate the incalculable? He asks, 'Did our parents fight WW II / just so we could go to double features / on Saturday,' watch black and white television, or 'lie on a hill after school / letting our imaginations run off / with cloud formations? That's about it.' These sorts of questions, cynical as they might be, are surprising and liberating, and he writes of intelligent design, of vacillation, and of science and math; the poet is 'called on' to stand 'bewildered.' Such is the beauty of Buckley's poetry, with 'Nothing but time to stop me / thinking.'

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, recognisably, a companion spirit on the journey all of creation has been on all this time.

Vpervye na russkom - nedavnjaja kniga Kristofera Bakli, avtora znamenitogo romana "Zdes kurjat" i polutora desjatkov drugikh bestsellerov. Proslavlennyj satirik, khorosho znajuschij politicheskuju kukhnju iznutri (byvshij spichrajter Dzhordzha Busha-starshego), "nashel dlja svoikh vnushitelnykh talantov novoe primenenie. Pochemu by i ne burnyj shestnadtsatyj vek, sobstvenno?" (The Washington Post). Itak, poznakomtes s Dismasom. Byvshij shvejtsarskij naemnik, a teper - ofitsialnyj sluga dvukh gospod: "postavschik svjatyn ko dvoru ego preosvjaschenstva arkhiepiskopa Brandenburgskogo i Majntsskogo Albrekhta, postavschik svjatyn ko dvoru kurfjursta Saksonii Fridrikha Mudrogo". Dismas razbiraetsja v svjaschennykh relikvijakh kak nikto drugoj, no ne chuzhd i avantjurnoj zhilki. I kogda odna iz Dismasovykh avantjur vskryvaetsja, metjaschij v kardinaly Albrekht delaet Dismasu i ego podelniku Albrekhtu Djureru predlozhenie, ot kotorogo nevozmozhno otkazatsja: otpravitsja iz Majntsa v Shamberi, chtoby vykrast iz sokrovischnitsy gertsoga Savojskogo odnu iz glavnykh svjatyn khristianskogo mira... "Esli po-gollivudski, to "Sobiratel relikvij" - eto kak smes "Printsessy-nevesty" i "Trinadtsati druzej Oushena", tolko sovershenno organichnaja" (Kirkus Reviews).

Vpervye na russkom - novejshaja kniga Kristofera Bakli, avtora znamenitogo romana "Zdes kurjat" i polutora desjatkov drugikh bestsellerov. Na etot raz proslavlennyj satirik, khorosho znajuschij politicheskuju kukhnju iznutri (byvshij spichrajter Dzhordzha Busha-starshego), "reshil rasshirit palitru i vremennoj okhvat - i prevzoshel sam sebja" (The Washington Times).London, 1664 god. Otgremela anglijskaja revoljutsija, monarkhija vosstanovlena, na trone sidit Karl II. Bolshinstvo sudej, pochti dva desjatiletija nazad podpisavshikh smertnyj prigovor predyduschemu monarkhu Karlu I, najdeny i kazneny, lish dvoe ukrylis v severoamerikanskikh kolonijakh. I vot na ikh poiski otpravljaetsja Baltazar de Sen-Mishel, nezadachlivyj shurin Semjuelja Pipsa, vysokopostavlennogo chinovnika Morskogo vedomstva. V Novom Svete Balti vstretit nesgibaemykh puritan i bezgreshnykh kvakerov, vrazhdujuschikh indejtsev i avantjuristov vsekh mastej, a takzhe zagadochnogo agenta Korony, prizvannogo pomogat emu v poiskakh. Tem vremenem po tu storonu Atlantiki Pips i ego vedomstvo gotovjatsja k ocherednoj beznadezhnoj vojne s Gollandiej...

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."

Kristofer Bakli - odin z postijnikh lideriv "Bestseleriv Nju-Jork Tajms", "najsmishnishij suchasnij anglomovnij pismennik", jak nazivajut jogo kritiki. Novij roman Bakli "Majster relikvij" - spravzhnij vikhor zapamorochlivikh podij, scho rozgortajutsja v Jevropi XVI stolittja: khudozhnik Albrekht Djurer i torgovets relikvijami Dismas vstupajut u zmovu z metoju pidrobki plaschanitsi Khrista, za jaku u zamozhnikh klijentiv mozhna otrimati velichezni groshi. Sered tsikh klijentiv - kurfjurst Saksoniji Fridrikh Mudrij i kardinal Majntskij. Na chitacha chekaje kupa najdivovizhnishikh serednovichnikh prigod - smertelno nebezpechnikh, frivolnikh i khitromudrikh, a takozh bezlich tsikavikh podrobits pro mistetstvo, religiju, politiku i nauku tikh chasiv.

Spectres 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 there as well as politics, memory, history, popular culture, philosophy, and a good deal of arm wrestling with chance inform Buckley's on-going debate between faith and doubt, science and religion.Buckley brings his customary sense of irony and slant humour to bear on the deep inquiry into our collective fates in Agnostic.

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 king. London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar "Balty" St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to track down two missing judges who were responsible for the execution of the last king, Charles I. When Balty's ship arrives in Boston, he finds a strange country filled with fundamentalist Puritans, saintly Quakers, warring tribes of Indians, and rogues of every stripe. Helped by a man named Huncks, an agent of the Crown with a mysterious past, Balty travels colonial America in search of the missing judges. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Samuel Pepys prepares for a war with the Dutch that fears England has no chance of winning. Christopher Buckley's enchanting new novel spins adventure, comedy, political intrigue, and romance against a historical backdrop with real-life characters like Charles II, John Winthrop, and Peter Stuyvesant. Buckley's wit is as sharp as ever as he takes readers to seventeenth-century London and New England. We visit the bawdy court of Charles II, Boston under the strict Puritan rule, and New Amsterdam back when Manhattan was a half-wild outpost on the edge of an unmapped continent. The Judge Hunter is a smart and swiftly plotted novel that transports readers to a new world.