![]() ![]() It’s not malevolent, he’s not clinging to the Resolute Desk, it’s just cloudy outside, he’s tired, he just doesn’t want to leave. Word comes out that he doesn’t want to leave. And the motorcade arrives at the White House to escort Mr. Reagan will be leaving office after his second term. It came out in 1986, but starts on January 20, 1989, at which point Mr. So I had the notion to write a parody of a White House memoir. But no one wants to read the memoirs of a vice presidential speechwriter. After two years at the White House, I wanted to do something. And two: it would have been much worse if I hadn’t been here. And they tend to have the same two themes, these White House memoirs. Everyone who works at the White House for more than five minutes, writes a 500-page memoir. I was speechwriter when he was Vice President, and I started reading White House memoirs then, and they’re really a fascinating subgenre. #Supreme courtship christopher buckley summary how toCan you talk about how you decided on this plot in particular? And also how you decided to write from this point of view of a White House staffer for the second time around, because we’re talking about how to reinvent genres in this episode.Ĭhristopher Buckley: I’d worked at the White House. Your first novel, The White House Mess, is a story in which Ronald Reagan refuses to leave the White House, and in this book, we get this story of Russian election interference and you’re depicting a president who paints himself with a broad brush. Whitney Terrell: Let’s back up a little bit, prior to the age of Trump. Fiction/Non/Fiction interview with Jabari Asim.Fiction/Non/Fiction interview with Curtis Sittenfeld.“ ‘Art of the Deal’ co-author: Trump ‘couldn’t care less tens of thousands are people are dying’ ” – MSNBC interview with Donald Trump’s ghostwriter Tony Schwartz.“ Christopher Buckley’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’ is the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for ” by Ron Charles Love & Other Crimes: “Acid Test”, “Miss Bianca”, “Flash Point”. ![]() This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction’s YouTube Channel. ![]()
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