America's Book Club - Christopher Buckley on "Losing Mum and Pop"

Christopher Buckley on "Losing Mum and Pop: "It's not a book I ever, planned to write. I did not know the night before I started writing it the next day that I was going to write that book, but, yeah, I watched, my my parents died within 11 months of each other, and I just started writing it, and it's the only book of mine that I could say, wrote itself. I looked at my calendar after and noted that it had taken 40 days, by which I don't I don't imply any biblical, meaning, but, I say somewhere early on in the book, you know, if. For better or for worse, I'm a writer. And if the universe hands you material like this, as the son of two suffice to say, larger than life characters not telling that story would seem almost to be, an act of denial. Here's and here's the thing about the book, because it's ironic all my life, but I have tried to be something other than just Bill Buckley's son. But that book sold like hotcakes, and it's still selling well, maybe like craps, but it's I mean, it's my best selling book so far. Hundreds of thousands of copies. And so the the joke may be on me that I mean this to the extent I'm remembered at all 50 years from now. This might be the book they remember me for, the book about being Bill Buckley's son."

SUNDAYAmerica's Book Club with Christopher Buckley 6pm ET on CSPAN

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