from the April 06, 2007 edition
We asked writer Christopher Buckley what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire [by Niall Ferguson]. It's a stunning work.There is more knowledge on each page than I have accumulated in 54 years. He's turned me around a bit on things like Iraq. He's pro-empire.
I have been anti-empire, but now I'm beginning to wonder. Though what a mess over there..
.. [Also], anything by Christopher Hitchens, whom I consider the greatest living essayist in the English language.
And absolutely anything by P.J. O'Rourke, whom I consider the funniest – and brightest – writer in the language.
I [also] confess to an enduring tropism toward the I play the same darn CD over and over: flute music from the 12th century, played in Sainte Chapelle, the amazing church in Soothing stuff. [And] Frank Sinatra. Nothing makes me happier than to be in a car with someone I love, listening to Sinatra belt out, "You make me feel so youngggggg!
" Christopher Buckley is the editor of ForbesLife magazine and author of "Thank You for Smoking." His new novel is titled "Boomsday.
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