March 31, 2011 - Katie Allen
"Titles on feminism, New Labour and the life and times of Christopher Hitchens have been longlisted for the 2011 Orwell Prize for political writing.
The announcement was made at an event on Wednesday [30th March].
Eighteen titles including Natasha Walters' Living Dolls (Virago), Whatever It Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour by Steve Richards (Fourth Estate) and Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic) are all longlisted for the £3,000 book prize."
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Hitch 22 up for Orwell Prize
March 31, 2011Posted by Tom at 16:26 4 comments
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Orwell Prize
The Iraq Effect
March 28, 2011If Saddam Hussein were still in power, this year's Arab uprisings could never have happened.
By Christopher Hitchens
"The most heartening single image of the past month—eclipsing even the bravery and dignity of the civilian fighters against despotism in Syria and Libya—was the sight of Hoshyar Zebari arriving in Paris to call for strong action against the depraved regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi."
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Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Iraq, Slate
Diary
March 25, 2011By Jeremy Harding
"I heard a few bars of Chris Corner’s song ‘I Salute You Christopher’ a day or so before the new IAMX album, Volatile Times, was released. The song, which appears on the album, is subtitled ‘Ode to Christopher Hitchens’:
I salute you Christopher
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The song is on YouTube..
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Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Jeremy Harding, LRB
Godless in Tumourville: Christopher Hitchens interview
By Mick Brown, 25 Mar 2011
"Writing in his memoirs, Hitch-22, of the numerous perils that he has faced as a reporter around the globe in places as various as Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and Beirut, Christopher Hitchens reflects that a little danger or discomfort can be a salutary thing: 'I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.’
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The Quotable Christopher Hitchens
March 24, 2011By WSJ Staff
"Speakeasy has been entertaining ourselves the last few days by leafing through a new book that landed on our desk: “The Quotable Christopher Hitchens.” As the subtitle — “From Alcohol to Zionism” — suggests, there are few subjects that Hitch hasn’t addressed in his long career, mostly with trademark acid wit. The book will be published in May. Here’s a sampler."
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Don't Let Qaddafi Win
March 14, 2011By Christopher Hitchens
"...Qaddafi senior has reached his Ceausescu moment: a full-dress (in the literal sense) meltdown into paranoia, megalomania, and delusion. His recent speeches and appearances have shown him stinking with madness and hysteria. His age and condition, at any rate, set a very sharp limit to the duration of his regime."
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American Inaction Favors Qaddafi
March 7, 2011The administration's inadequate response to the crisis in Libya reveals a lack of courage and principle.
What I Don’t See at the Revolution
By Christopher Hitchens
"When anatomizing revolutions, it always pays to consult the whiskered old veterans. Those trying to master a new language, wrote Karl Marx about the turmoil in France in the 19th century, invariably begin haltingly, by translating it back into the familiar tongue they already know. And with his colleague Friedrich Engels he defined a revolution as the midwife by whom the new society is born from the body of the old."
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Outspoken and outrageous: Christopher Hitchens
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Labels: 2011, 60 minutes, cancer, CBS News, Christopher Hitchens, interview, Steve Kroft
Hitchens feared cancer could stop his writing
March 4, 2011
The interview will be broadcasted on "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 6 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/04/60minutes/main20038931.shtml
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