"I GREW UP around typewriters," says Christopher Buckley. "My earliest memories are of Dad hammering away at a big old Royal. I'd sit in his lap and watch. "I was sitting there one night, when he put aside his work and taught me...

Christopher Buckley. Sky. Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. Sheep Meadow (University Press of New England, distr.). 2004. 82 pages. $14.95. ISBN 1-931-357-22-6 SKY is Christopher Buckley's thirteenth collection of poetry and possibly his best. Readers familiar with Buckley's work will immediately recognize the expansive...

"It's been quite something," said Christopher Buckley, of the deluge of phone calls that he and his family had received about the death of his mother, Pat Buckley, on April 15. Mr. Buckley, a humor writer and editor, spoke to The Observer from the Buckley...

Last night at a party for The Atlantic Monthly's 150th anniversary, held on the stage of the NYU student center auditorium, the aging cable-access porn star Robin Byrd was looking around the room. She saw Robert DeNiro, and locked in."Hello!" she said, touching his...

In the following interview, Buckley discusses his writing career, his body of work, and his future projects.

In the following review, Simonds praises Buckley for maintaining the balance between satire and insight in The White House Mess.

In the following review, Sobran applauds Buckley's descriptive abilities in Steaming to Bamboola, but believes the book lacks Buckley's personal glimpses and cohesive plotting.