Happy Birthday Christopher Hitchens !

April 13, 2011

Enjoy your day, Christopher. All the best to you and your family, you're in our thoughts.

42 comments:

Anonymous said... April 13, 2011 at 12:58 PM: Happy birthday! Get well and see more!
lautaro said... April 14, 2011 at 12:31 AM: Happy birthday, Mr. Hitchens. May your wonderful writings continue to accompany us.
Anonymous said... April 15, 2011 at 1:29 AM: Mr Hitchen. You are an inspiration to so many people. We all hope you are back to your best health just as soon as possible. The world and those fighting for common sense need you more now than ever. Hang on in there dude!

Best wishes

Gordon Morrison
Inverness
Scotland.
Joe Blogs said... May 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM: “The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.” -Oscar Wilde.
barrabascareening said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday, Hitch! May the road rise to meet you....
Mark said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday to you old man. May you find yourself happy and healthy for many more. Our thoughts are with you here.
Neuronalphiles said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: A big birthday wish to a wonderful person and dear friend.
JL said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: :) Love that.
percy23 said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy birthday! You are a true hero to thousands of us.
David said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday Mr. Hitchens. Wishing you many more. Love your writing, thank you
1stLt.L.Diablo said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: ha! good one
Cheryl said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday, Hitch! Hope your day was marvelous. I'm very glad to know you through your writing. You will always have a very special place in my heart.
Hitchophile said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday, Hitch! May you have many, many more!
Jolanta Bell said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy birthday Mr.Hitchens! Thank you for your valuable contribution to free thought and enlightenment, so badly needed in the 'modern' world! You are an inspiring example and a modern hero. With love and thanks.
Paulbelodeau said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: HAPPY BIRTHDAY HITCH! (build up that wall!)
Stacy said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Be well, Hitch!
Mars_Ultor said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy B-day Christopher, best wishes for your health and vitality. I think I will have some Scotch in your honor tonight!
Mary said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: There is no way I can thank you enough for your contribution to my freedom from the mental slavery of religion. With love and gratitude, happy birthday.
Stuart Mitchell said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday Christopher!
Helen said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday, Mr. Hitchens!
Liyhann said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: I do hope today is a good day.
Caribeye said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: You're entitled to a few shots of JW Black Label today - surely! - or (as a Caribbean person, myself) you must try some El Dorado 15 Year Old Guyana rum (the best amber restorative in the world!). Happy birthday and my wish for you and yours is a whole lot more truths, love and laughter!
Rhonda said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday and many, many more.
em said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Best birthday wishes, you wonderful man.
Christine Eldridge said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy Birthday, Hitch, with love!!
Jasonfcannon said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy B-Day Hitch! You are a beacon to Free Thinkers!!!! Hang in there. Cheers
Chrismmc77 said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: many happy returns of the day, good sir! In your honor (if it is such a thing) I named my newly hatched Ornate Box tortoise after you, I call him "Hitch".
Adam Torrance said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy birthday Christoper.
Every breath you breath, is life to us.
HappyBirthdayHitch! said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Many happy returns of the day, sweetheart:)
Janice Clanfield said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Congratulations on winning yet another free trip around the sun! Happy Birthday Hitch...
Castlebreaker said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Yes, I hope it is the happiest of birthdays and may I just say I am SO glad you're still here!!

Laura Carter
Reidsville NC
Del said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: hi christopher, hope your feeling well, have a wonderful birthday with all your family and friends, have many others to come, stay strong..
Wrecked House said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: A happy birthday note from Wrecked House
http://wreckedhouse.com/?p=84
Jason Pilley said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Typical Aries.
Bev Smith said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Yes, I hope it's the best birthday ever for Christopher.
Lgtsln said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Enjoy the day!!
TomDH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: And there are too few candles on the cake, right?
hitchkiller said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Hitch like The Stones or Dylan b4 the beatles
Briansusko said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy birthday!
M said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Happy birthday Mr. Hitchens! Hope you have a wonderful day in the company of your family and friends. We love you!
Jdelihas said... May 11, 2011 at 9:40 PM: Happy Birthday Christopher,
The Greek says it better: Na ta ekatostisis May you reach one hundred. Affectionately,
James Delihas
theairwebreathe said... May 11, 2011 at 9:40 PM: I earnestly pray for you, Christopher. When you die and finally get to meet the God you have worked so hard to deny in this life, what excuse do you have to tell Him? By then it will be damningly too late.

Books by Hitchens

2012 Mortality. Twelve Books
2011 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve.
2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism. Da Capo Press
2010 Hitch-22: A Memoir . Twelve/Hachette Book Group.
2007 god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books
2007 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer. Perseus Publishing
2006 Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography. Books That Shook the World/Atlantic Books
2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers
2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books
2003 A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Plume Books
2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books (US)/UK edition as Orwell's Victory, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press.
2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso.
2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books.
2000 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso.
1999 No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Verso.
1997 Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger. Verso
1997 The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (UK) Verso.
1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Verso.
1993 For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports. Verso,
1990 The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish. Chatto & Windus
1990 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
1988 Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. Hill and Wang (US)/Chatto and Windus (UK).
1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988)
1984 Cyprus. Quartet.

As co-author or co-editor

2011 Hitchens vs. Blair: Be it resolved that religion is a force of good in the world. House of Anansi Press
2010 The Best American Essays 2010. Mariner Books
2008 Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate (co-author, with Douglas Wilson). Canon Press
2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman). New York University Press.
2002 Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (co-editor, with Christopher Caldwell)
1994 When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi). Pantheon Books
1994 International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-1995 (with Adam Bartos). Verso
1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said). Verso
1981 Inequalities in Zimbabwe (with David Stephen).Minority Rights Group
1976 Callaghan, The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner). Cassell

As contributor

2010 The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969. Christopher Isherwood. HarperCollins.
2010 Civilization and Its Discontents. Edited by James Strachey. W.W. Norton & Company
2010 New Threats to Freedom. Edited by Adam Bellow. Templeton Press.
2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press
2003 Animal Farm and 1984. George Orwell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Introduction by CH.
2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio
2000 Safe Area Gorazde, Fantagraphics
1998 After Diana: Irreverent Elegies. Mandy Merck. Verso

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