Christopher Buckley

In Boomsday, Buckley’s latest novel, the relentlessly topical humorist (and spawn of conservative doyen William F. Buckley) envisions a future in which bloggers are actually powerful enough to radically influence decisions at the highest level of American politics. Not so far-fetched, you might say, but Buckley’s penchant for taking aim at the broadest possible targets (big tobacco, the legal profession, organized religion, the generally fatuous culture of the Beltway) and blasting away until there’s not an unsympathetic soul left standing makes for merciless and often surprising satire. 651-290-1221; fitzgeraldtheater.publicradio.org