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But enough about you : essays / Christopher Buckley.
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- ISBN: 9781476749518 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1476749515
- ISBN: 9781476749525 (tp)
- ISBN: 1476749523 (tp)
- Physical Description: x, 450 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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| Subject: | American essays > 20th century. American essays > 21st century. |
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Table of Contents
But Enough about You : Essays
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. 1 | |
| But Enough About You | ||
| Freighter Days | p. 15 | |
| Ecru, Brute? | p. 17 | |
| The Nazi of the Quiet Car | p. 20 | |
| Fish Story | p. 23 | |
| Commencement Butterflies | p. 25 | |
| Really-Really-Really Top Secret | p. 28 | |
| Summers on Suzy | p. 31 | |
| The Dirt on Dirt | p. 35 | |
| Autumn, Intimations | p. 37 | |
| How to Break into the Movies in Only Twelve Years | p. 39 | |
| Into Thin Hair | p. 43 | |
| Suburban Crank | p. 54 | |
| But Seriously | ||
| Supreme Court Calendar | p. 59 | |
| The Origin and Development of the Lobster Bib | p. 62 | |
| A Short History of the Bug Zapper | p. 65 | |
| Scrutiny on the Bounty | p. 68 | |
| Good Evening and Good Luck | p. 73 | |
| A Short History of the Billionaire | p. 76 | |
| We Regret the Error | p. 80 | |
| Your Horoscope | p. 83 | |
| Out and About | ||
| Rambles with Maggie | p. 89 | |
| Left. No, Right. No-Straight! | p. 98 | |
| Machu Picchu | p. 100 | |
| Dogged Pursuit | p. 109 | |
| The History of the Hotel Minibar | p. 115 | |
| Two in the Bush | p. 118 | |
| Good Morning, Hanoi | p. 125 | |
| Auschwitz | p. 130 | |
| London, Remembrance Day | p. 140 | |
| Easter Island | p. 142 | |
| A Short History of the Hotel Alarm Clock | p. 146 | |
| Plaque Tracking | p. 151 | |
| Small Aircraft Advisory | p. 153 | |
| Statecraft | ||
| The Vishnu | p. 159 | |
| The New Yorker Political Cartoons | p. 167 | |
| VP Questionnaire | p. 173 | |
| Langella/Nixon | p. 175 | |
| Trump: The Inaugural | p. 178 | |
| Mr. Lincoln's Washington | p. 181 | |
| Get Out the Pitchforks | p. 188 | |
| The Secretary of History | p. 191 | |
| Farewells | ||
| Tom Congdon | p. 197 | |
| Dear Joe | p. 199 | |
| JFK, Jr. | p. 216 | |
| Solzhenitsyn | p. 219 | |
| Gore Vidal | p. 221 | |
| Christopher Hitchens | p. 224 | |
| Criticism | ||
| Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong | p. 233 | |
| Kissinger on China | p. 237 | |
| How It Went: Kurt Vonnegut | p. 240 | |
| Apocalypse Soon | p. 245 | |
| The New Yorker Money Cartoons | p. 249 | |
| Catch-22 at Fifty | p. 254 | |
| You Thieving Pile of Albino Warts! | p. 262 | |
| Ray Bradbury | p. 266 | |
| To-ga! | p. 275 | |
| Reviews in Brief: Diana Books | p. 278 | |
| Yours Ever, Plum | p. 281 | |
| Reviews in Brief: New Lincoln Books | p. 290 | |
| Our Man in Havana | p. 292 | |
| Reagan's Card File | p. 296 | |
| The Patriarch | p. 300 | |
| The Way You Move | p. 306 | |
| Thar He Blows (Again): Moby-Dick | p. 310 | |
| The Year of Living Dyingly | p. 321 | |
| La Belle France | ||
| A Reusable Feast | p. 329 | |
| Paris to Die For | p. 334 | |
| How Foie Gras Was My Valley | p. 340 | |
| Hangin' with van Gogh and de Sade in Provence | p. 345 | |
| Zagat Survey: The Louvre | p. 350 | |
| Continuing Education | ||
| Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski | p. 357 | |
| It Is with Regret | p. 359 | |
| As You Go Forward | p. 363 | |
| NASA Astronaut Screening, Revised and Updated | p. 365 | |
| Post-Taliban Afghanistan: A Guide to the Key Players | p. 367 | |
| The Debt of Socrates | p. 370 | |
| After Saddam: A Briefer | p. 372 | |
| The New Japanese SAT | p. 374 | |
| The Higgs boson Particle and You: Q & A | p. 377 | |
| Essays | ||
| Hoof in Mouth | p. 383 | |
| Thank You for Not Warning Me | p. 391 | |
| How to Write Witty E-mail | p. 394 | |
| What's a Body to Do? | p. 400 | |
| As I Was Saying to Henry Kissinger | p. 404 | |
| My Entourage Is Bigger Than Your Entourage | p. 411 | |
| Trust No One | p. 420 | |
| The Art of Sacking | p. 422 | |
| I Like to Drink a Martini | p. 426 | |
| You Can Do It! | p. 428 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 443 | |
| Index | p. 445 |
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