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Survival Kit / July 06, 2003

Survival Kit

Sunday, July 06, 2003
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  • Christopher Buckley

    Christopher Buckley has travelled down the Amazon with Malcolm Forbes, done a stint in the merchant marine, put in time as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House for Vice President George Bush, visited a UFO convention, and then went on to turn these experiences into satiric novels and memoirs like Steaming to Bamboola, Washington Schlepped Here,The White House Mess, No Way to Treat A First Lady, Wet Work and Little Green Men. He’s also served as editor for Forbes FYI Magazine and written for the New Yorker, Esquire and other publications. Let’s find out what he’s put in his Survival Kit for another trip into the wild.

His list:

1. Box of cigars
2. Beatles album Revolver
3. Actual revolver
4. Moby Dick
5. Yeats Poems
6. Auden Poems
7. Very large bottle of brandy
8. My wife