P.J. O'Rourke


P.J. O’Rourke


Humorist; Author, Driving Like Crazy


Political satirist O’Rourke celebrates America’s love affair with cars in his newly collected anthology of spiels-on-wheels. The grandson and son of car dealers, O’Rourke reveals his personal fascination with automobiles and recaps some of his most memorable and humorous road trips over the past 30 years, “from places that you wouldn’t want to be to places you wouldn’t want to go.”


Location: Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto
Time: 6:30 p.m. check-in, 7 p.m. program, 8 p.m. book signing
Cost: $12 members, $18 non-members
Also know: Underwriter: The Bernard Osher Foundation. Photo by James Kegley



P.J. O'ROURKE


Humorist; Author, Driving Like Crazy


Driving Like Crazy


Political satirist O’Rourke celebrates America’s love affair with cars in his newly collected anthology of spiels-on-wheels.


The grandson and son of car dealers, O’Rourke reveals his personal fascination with automobiles and recaps some of his most memorable and humorous road trips over the past 30 years, “from places that you wouldn’t want to be to places you wouldn’t want to go.”

June 11, 2009