Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality: A rare honest book about death.
By Katie Roiphe
Before being diagnosed with esophageal cancer, Christopher Hitchens wrote in his memoir, Hitch-22, “I want to stare death in the eye.”
This seems, of course, an impossible blustery task, but in his last book, Mortality he comes astonishingly close to pulling it off.
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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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Death, Explained
August 29, 2012Posted by Tom at 21:30 0 comments
Labels: 2012, book, cancer, Christopher Hitchens, death, Mortality, Slate
The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for Art of the Essay
2012 Winner: Arguably
"Arguably is a book of essays astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative, taking on everything from Middle Eastern politics to Thomas Jefferson and Prince Charles, from Lolita and Ezra Pound to Hitler, Saul Bellow and Hugo Boss."
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Martin Amis: Still talking to Hitch
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Author Martin Amis on coping with the loss of his best friend Christopher Hitchens.
When Christopher Hitchens died in December, Martin Amis lost his best friend. The British author says his immediate desolation gave way to a much greater love of life, something Amis believes Hitchens had in spades and bequeathed to him when he passed away.
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