After his January lecture for Literary Arts, a dinner at Bluehour organized by Portland Monthly, Portlanders learned that Hitchens’s swashbuckling stage persona is actually his soft side.
Audio & Transcript here.
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.

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A Dinner with Christopher Hitchens
February 13, 2010Posted by Tom at 09:52 3 comments
Labels: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, portland monthly
Christopher Hitchens on Little Atoms
During the Oxford Literary Festival 2007, Christopher Hitchens was interviewed by Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy. (1/6) (2/6) (3/6) (4/6) (5/6) (6/6)
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