Welcome back to ThinkTalk's Hump Day Movie Day. Every Wednesday we're going to pull a favorite interview from the archives. This week, our feature showing is a Blank Page interview with Christopher Buckley, the author whose novels include Supreme Courtship and Thank You For Smoking. He sat down in the ThinkTalk studios to answer questions about his career and the challenges of fiction and satirical writing.

Christopher Buckley, American social and political satirist and novelist, graduated with honors from Yale University. Shortly after college he became managing editor of Esquire Magazine and by the age of 29 he published his first best-seller, Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter, and became chief speechwriter to President George Bush. In 1989 Malcolm Forbes hired Buckley to create a new magazine, Forbes FYI. He has also written pieces for most national newspapers and magazines. Buckley has written a total of thirteen novels including Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker, and Little Green Men.