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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Christopher Buckley interview

Christopher Buckley chats with Benjamin Healy in The Atlantic about his new book, Florence of Arabia. Buckley, one of the funniest writers out there, is a hoot, especially when mocking the foibles of the self-important. Some choice excerpts:
Buckley: As one of the characters wryly observes, the motto of the State Department ought to be "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Making Matters Worse."
Healy: You can put that on the stationery.
Buckley: Yeah, right, "Fucking things up since 1922."


Another:
Buckley: Some of my favorite moments in Florence of Arabia are those that take off on the titles of real books by British and French authors about the creation of the modern Middle East: We Will Take Lebanon and Syria, and You Can Keep the Jews and the Palestinians, or Let's Put Iraq Here, and Lebanon Over Here.

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