Only a short clip from the conversation. This is embedded from the 92nd Street Y Channel. Why not right-click, watch it on YouTube and post a comment to ask them to upload the rest of the event. I did it already.
Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

Popular Posts
-
Mr Steve Wasserman, Christopher Hitchens' literary agent, kindly replied to my query about a possible memorial. Posted with permission. ...
-
Vanity Fair | January 2012 By Christopher Hitchens When it came to it, and old Kingsley suffered from a demoralizing and disorienting fal...
-
The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always don...
-
Vanity Fair, June 2011 By Christopher Hitchens "Like so many of life’s varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of m...
-
Texas Freethought Conv: The Dawkins/Hitchens speeches and Q&A will be available soon in professional quality video. The actual confer...
-
New Statesman: "You may need to set aside the rest of your Saturday to get through this, but here in full is the transcript of the long...
-
By Christopher Hitchens "After she was elected the first female governor of Texas, in 1924, and got herself promptly embroiled in a...
-
As 9/11 showed, civilization has enemies with which peace is neither possible nor desirable. By Christopher Hitchens A continuous and r...
-
Vanity Fair | August 2012 By Christopher Hitchens George Orwell’s best-known work (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) emerged from pain...
-
Talk of the Nation. Carol Blue, Hitchens' wife of 20 years, interviewed on NPR by Neal Conan. Listen here . (30 min.)

Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie at the 92nd Street Y
June 12, 2010Posted by Tom at 11:02
Labels: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
"His sail was so raised as to be ballooned by any wind of bullshit that came by."
Wondetful.
hitch looks in terrible shape in this video. can only think it must have been a very hard drinking night the day before. such a difference from just a few years ago. see for example the hitchens tharoor debate in 2006, only 4 years ago. he has gone really down hill. wish he would preserve himself better so we all can enjoy and learn from him longer...
Hey did you see his video on Fora.tv.
http://fora.tv/2010/06/04/Christopher_Hitchens_Some_Confessions_and_Contradictions
>""His sail was so raised as to be ballooned by any wind of bullshit that came by."
Wondetful."
...until you realize that the great Hitch has descended into a mixed metaphor. The concept of being propelled by shit is a comical one, on the bright side.
who's dorothea, btw?
I assume Eliot's heroine from Middlemarch.
We now know from his Vanity Fair piece that he had earlier in the day had emergency treatment and vomitted before coming on stage. Poor guy looks it.
Post a Comment