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Mr Steve Wasserman, Christopher Hitchens' literary agent, kindly replied to my query about a possible memorial. Posted with permission. ...
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Vanity Fair, June 2011 By Christopher Hitchens "Like so many of life’s varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of m...
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At reddit.com there are comments on Hitchens having breathing issues at the airport. This would explain the cancellations. Hopefully it'...
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Vanity Fair | January 2012 By Christopher Hitchens When it came to it, and old Kingsley suffered from a demoralizing and disorienting fal...
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By Peter Hitchens I can’t really claim that I never notice the extraordinarily spiteful attacks on me which come from one particular qua...
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By Christopher Hitchens Ever since Tom Lehrer recorded his imperishable anti-Christmas ditty all those years ago, the small but growing...
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The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always don...
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By Peter Hitchens How odd it is to hear of your own brother’s death on an early morning radio bulletin. How odd it is for a private loss...
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Time has come to publish the last post on this site. I've been posting links and articles for three years, and it's been great. I a...
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Vanity Fair February 2012 By Christopher Hitchens Those who study Charles Dickens, or who keep up the great cult of his admiration, h...

Hitchens and Dawkins at the Texas Freethought Convention in Houston 2011
October 10, 2011Believe Me - It's Torture
BBC Radio 4
By Christopher Hitchens. A selection of the polemical journalist's essays. Read by Roger Allam.
Listen here (15 minutes). Available for 7 days.
Honouring Christopher Hitchens
Text of speech presenting the Richard Dawkins Award on behalf of Atheist Alliance of America, Houston, 8th October 2011
"Today I am called upon to honour a man whose name will be joined, in the history of our movement, with those of Bertrand Russell, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, David Hume. He is a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know. And I live in Oxford, his alma mater and mine."
More: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643452-honouring-christopher-hitchens
Lord Haw Haw and Anwar al-Awlaki
What the execution of a World War II traitor can teach us about assassinating American-born terrorists.
By Christopher Hitchens
The first thing to say, when reviewing the question of what America should do about those of its citizens who advocate the murder of random numbers of its civilians, is that it is flat-out astonishing to see the debate being conducted at all. Faced with jeering, sniggering, vicious saboteurs who hide from the daylight and pop up on blog and cheap CDs, calmly awarding religious permission for the capricious taking of life, what do we imagine Vladimir Putin would do?
More: http://slate.me/nz2OgY
Posted by Tom at 20:59 0 comments
Labels: 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, Christopher Hitchens, Slate, terrorism
A Voice, Still Vibrant, Reflects on Mortality
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Hitchens, journalist Matthew Chapman, Dawkins, Carol Blue |
HOUSTON — Christopher Hitchens, probably the country’s most famous unbeliever, received the Freethinker of the Year Award at the annual convention of the Atheist Alliance of America here on Saturday. Mr. Hitchens was flattered by the honor, he said a few days beforehand, but also a little abashed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/books/christopher-hitchens-on-writing-mortality-and-cancer.html?ref=books
Posted by Tom at 05:16 1 comments
Labels: 2011, Arguably, cancer, Christopher Hitchens, Texas, The New York Times