Carol Blue answers questions

Carol Blue, the widow of author Christopher Hitchens, answered viewer questions submitted via Twitter, Facebook.

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Authors on Christopher Hitchens

Martin Amis, Carol Blue, Cary Goldstein, and Robert Weil discussed Christopher Hitchens' book Mortality. This event took place at the 2012 Miami Book Fair International held November 11-18, 2012 on the campus of Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida.

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Piers Morgan interviews Carol Blue

Tom Cook has a thread on reddit where you can remember Hitchens, and what he meant to you.

Hitchens' last days

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
"Carol Blue, Christopher Hitchens' widow, talks candidly about her husband's dying days."

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Graydon Carter & Carol Blue on Christopher Hitchens

Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, & Carol Blue, widow of Christopher Hitchens, on “Mortality” a series of essays Hitchens wrote for Vanity Fair while undergoing treatment for cancer. 

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An afterword to the life of Christopher Hitchens

Carol Blue, Christopher Hitchens' widow, talks about his legacy, his illness and life without him.

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Carol Blue on Q

The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always done, up until the very end," says his widow, Carol Blue.
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This year’s LENNONONO GRANT FOR PEACE recipients are:

RACHEL CORRIE, JOHN PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, PUSSY RIOT plus one more

http://imaginepeace.com/archives/18529

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/20/christopher-hitchens-pussy-riot-peace-prize-john-lennon_n_1899208.html

Carol Blue On Mourning And 'Mortality'

Talk of the Nation.
Carol Blue, Hitchens' wife of 20 years, interviewed on NPR by Neal Conan.

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An interview with Carol Blue

Amazon: Mortality shows us a different side of Christopher Hitchens. How was he different in private from the public persona that so many of us saw?

There was a gentle side of Christopher that wasn’t necessarily on display in his public appearances. If you were to watch every YouTube video of Christopher speaking and debating, it wouldn’t convey what he was like in private...

Read more http://www.omnivoracious.com/2012/09/on-mortality-an-interview-with-christopher-hitchens-widow-carol-blue.html

Carol Blue on The Leonard Lopate Show

Carol Blue, the widow of Christopher Hitchens, discusses his last book, Mortality, a collection of his series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, written over the last year of his life.



http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/sep/07/christopher-hitchens-mortality/

Carol Blue on "CBS This Morning"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57508197/christopher-hitchens-widow-on-his-death-god-never-came-up/

Christopher Hitchens: an impossible act to follow

The Telegraph
By Carol Blue

Onstage, my husband was an impossible act to follow. If you ever saw him at the podium, you may not share Richard Dawkins’s assessment that “he was the greatest orator of our time”, but you will know what I mean – or at least you won’t think, “She would say that, she’s his wife.” Offstage, my husband was an impossible act to follow.

Read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9480797/Christopher-Hitchens-an-impossible-act-to-follow.html

The “unpublished jottings” of Christopher Hitchens

By Christopher Hitchens and David Plotz

"Remember, you too are mortal"—hit me at the top of my form and just as things were beginning to plateau. My two assets my pen and my voice—and it had to be the esophagus. All along, while burning the candle at both ends, I'd been "straying into the arena of the unwell" and now "a vulgar little tumor" was evident. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/fighting_words/2012/08/christopher_hitchens_mortality_the_unpublished_jottings_of_the_late_great_writer_and_thinker_.html

'I am not fighting or battling cancer - it is fighting me'

Daily Mail Online

As he faced death from cancer, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens kept his wry sense of humour to the very end, it emerged today.
He used a hospital food tray as a desk for his computer to record his last thoughts about the illness which claimed his life at 62.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190200/I-fighting-battling-cancer--fighting-Last-words-author-Christopher-Hitchens-faced-death.html