By Salman Rushdie
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small, celebratory dinner the brilliance continued. A few days later he told me that it was on the morning of the Y event that he had been given the news about his cancer.
Read more http://bit.ly/yYScFt
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Join the discussion
Popular Posts
-
The DSK case and the silly stereotypes about American and European morals. By Christopher Hitchens "Why is that we cannot read any ... -
The administration's inadequate response to the crisis in Libya reveals a lack of courage and principle. By Christopher Hitchens ... -
In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com . Gift-wrap available. Product Description The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitch...
-
William Dembski debated CH at the Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, Nov 18, 2010. As some of you have noticed, the debate was upl... -
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...
-
Vanity Fair | January 2012 By Christopher Hitchens When it came to it, and old Kingsley suffered from a demoralizing and disorienting fal... -
The New York Times - Sunday Book Review Christopher Hitchens reviews ADVENTURES IN THE ORGASMATRON How the Sexual Revolution Came to ... -
In the battle for ideas, scientists could learn from Christopher Hitchens. By Michael Shermer " Although he has no formal training in... -
The great polemicist is certain to be remembered, but perhaps not as he would like. By George Eaton "Nothing concentrates the mind ... -
Our failure to respond to the Serbian atrocities prolonged the slaughter. By Christopher Hitchens "I suppose it is possible that t...
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Baruch Spinoza
George Orwell
Bertrand Russell
Leon Trotsky
Rosa Luxemburg
Socrates
16 comments:
One Hundred Years of Insulation
The Adventures of Augie Smith
I have the utmost respect and admiration for Christopher hitchens but I have to disagree with him In his statement that one does not battle cancer ,that it is a passive event something that is boring and banal having the poisonous chemo therapeutic drugs pumped through ones veins. To battle the disease is to undergo the treatment prescribed by the doctors and to not merely dismiss the treatment and let nature take its course.
Here's a nice piece on Hitch from Victor Davis Hanson:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson010412.html
Fine Expectations
Uncle Tom's Flat
Twelve O'Clock Kids
The Unclothed and The Deceased
London Plots
Portrait of the Artist As A Narcassistic Little Prick
Thus Spake Herbert Hoover
The Ice Man Will Arrive
Mein Scherz
"The Second-Rate Verses"
Hitchens was such a brilliant man and I have great respect for him. He will be missed.
Hitch 22.5
The Mosquito Beach
Fear and Nausea in Las Vegas
The Time Contraption
Manufacturing Accord
The Solipsistic Gene
The Peoria Community College English Dictionary
The World Is Planar
Mesopotamian Nights
The Satanic Limericks
The Girl With the Dragon Decal
Disagreement Horse
God Is Mediocre At Best
So Long To Everything That Happened
PJones, Reporter
Nightmares About The Drunk Who Abandoned Me
Murder on the Eastern Commuter Train
The Daguerreotype of Dorian Gray
The Baronet of the Rings
Far from the Madding Population
The God Misidentification
Aristotle's Pathetics
Daniel Copperfield
1980
Paradise Gone
The Terrier of the Baskervilles
The Maltese Mallard
The Big Nap
On Her Majesty's Social Service
Loretta
The Importance of Being Rich
Suitors and Suitability
The Campfire of the Vanities
You, Claudius
Wealthy Ben's Almanac
Flashman In Afternoon Traffic
The Plums of Wrath
The Tumbling Point
Allegorical Farm
Post a Comment