William F. Buckley, Jr.
Lowry to Buckley: You Canceled Your Own Goddamn Column
Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review, has responded to Christopher Buckley's announcement on Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast that he was "fired," as the story's URL shows, or "sacked," as its headline read until it was recently changed to "Buckley Bows Out of National Review." (Buzz moves fast, and as The Times David Carr wrote roughly 300 hours ago, "Given Ms. Brown’s reputation for frantically changing everything in the final hours of closing every magazine she has edited, perhaps a medium that absorbs — indeed, requires — constant reiteration will suit her.") read more »
Gore Vidal Doesn't Need Your Stinkin' Esquire Assignment
This week, Esquire.com posted the magazine's most recent "What I've Learned" interview with Gore Vidal.
While Mr. Vidal's interview was as erudite and prickly as the great man himself (samples: "'You got to meet everyone—Jackie Kennedy, William Burroughs.' People always put that sentence the wrong way around. I mean, why not put it the true way, that these people got to meet me, and wanted to?"; "Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia"), the most interesting part was the behind-the-scenes story in the form of an email from interviewer Mike Sager. read more »
William F. Buckley Jr. Dead at 82
William F. Buckley Jr., author of dozens of books and founder of National Review, died this morning at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, according to The New York Times. He had been suffering from emphysema and diabetes. His son told the The Times that he was found at his desk in his study.
The Transom
The Buckley Endorsement
Clinton, of New York, is ``a very consequential woman with an extraordinary background,'' he said. ``Her thought is kind of woozy left, not in my judgment threatening.''Meanwhile, if you want a curative to the new Buckley-as-genial-wise-man thing, try this recent Observer piece on Dwight Macdonald, who long ago described Buckley's work as "giving the general effect of a brief by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft on behalf of a pickpocket arrested in a subway men’s room."She is ``a phenomenon, a woman candidate who might easily be president,'' Buckley said.
Pat Buckley
Churchill's Blood, Sweat And Doctored Footnotes
Journalists or Hired Flacks?
Power Punk: Rich Lowry
Bush Can't Ignore Buchanan's Ravings
Exhuming McCarthy in a Novel-and Doing the Oedipal Shuffle
Forget Outer-Space Aliens-Check Out Washington, D.C.
Harry Evans Makes Move to Squash Pesky British Gadfly Who Mocks Him
