Christopher Buckley: “Steaming to Bamboola” and Other Journeys
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essays, book reviews, and more than twenty novels, including a great deal of political satire, a thoroughly American life of letters. Christopher Buckley on Uncommon Knowledge Now. One of the country's most prolific political satirists, Christopher Buckley, graduated from Yale. became an editor at Esquire, served as speechwriter to Vice President George H.W. Bush, then began writing books.
Mr. Buckley's more than 20 volumes include Steaming to Bambula, his 1982 chronicle of life aboard a tramp steamer, his 1994 Lampoon of Washington lobbyists' Thank You for Smoking, which was made into a movie, and his 2009 memoir, Losing Mom and Pup, about the year in which he lost both his mother and his father, the journalist William F. Buckley, Jr. Christopher Buckley, welcome.
Good to be here. Uh I should state for purposes of full disclosure that you and I have been friends for four decades. We have backgrounds. Yes, we have background there's there's a backstory. There's a backstory.
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