Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader - Hardcover

O'Rourke, P. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080212366X ISBN 13: 9780802123664

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015

Synopsis

P.J. O’Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America’s most celebrated humorists. But that career almost didn’t happen. As he tells it, “I began to write for pay in the spring of 1970. To tell the truth I didn’t even mean to be a writer, I meant to be a race car driver, but I didn’t have a race car.”

Fortunately for us, he had to settle for writing. From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone’s International Affairs editor in the 80s and 90s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P.J. has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane prose, a gonzo Republican attitude and a rare ability to make you laugh out loud. Chris Buckley once described his work as “S.J. Perlman on acid” and when Penguin first published its Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations PJ had more entries than any living writer.

For the first time Thrown Under the Omnibus brings together his funniest, most outrageous, most controversial and most loved pieces in the definitive P.J. reader. Handpicked and introduced by the humorist himself, Thrown Under the Omnibus is the essential P.J. O’Rourke anthology.

About this title

About the Author

P. J. ORourke was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, and attended Miami University and Johns Hopkins. He began writing funny things in 1960s underground newspapers, became editor-in-chief ofNational Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and theAtlantic Monthly as the worlds only trouble-spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other Holidays in Hell in more than 40 countries. Hes written 16 books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. His book about Washington, Parliament of Whores, and his book about international conflict and crisis,Give War a Chance, both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a contributing editor at theWeekly Standard, H. L. Mencken fellow at the Cato Institute, a member of the editorial board of World Affairs and a regular panelist on NPRs "Wait Wait Dont Tell Me." He lives with his family in rural New England, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 080212366X
• ISBN 13: 9780802123664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640